2009-11-04 - Identified through online information from Jeffrey Dexter. -Database Manager
2010-01-06 - Updated through online information from William Mollema. -- This is a composite organ containing components from many major theatre and classic organ companies including Wicks, Möller, Kimball, Wurlitzer, Robert Morton, Barton, Page. Instrument is a combination of a 4-36 theatre organ and a 46 rank classic instrument which both play from the same console containing 400 stop tabs and 90 pistons. Relay is Z-Tronics, combination action is Trousdale 4 mem. level. Instrument has a Trousdale PC record/playback system controlling all functions. Divisions enclosed include Foundation, Main, Solo, Swell. Unenclosed include classic divisions Great, Pedal, Positiv. All voices are wind blown pipework except the 3 32' extensions. Organ contains 16 ranks extended to 16' and 4 ranks extended to 1'. The classic divisions contain mixtures totalling 16 ranks. The Positiv contains a Trompette-en-Chamade at 8' and 4'. The resources include many choice sets of pipes including a Skinner French Horn, Kimball English Horn, and the only known Brass Trumpet made by the Estey Organ Co. from opus 2812 originally in the United Artists Studios. The Swell contains a Möller Flute and Celeste by Whitelegg for which he was well known. Wind pressures in the organ range from 3 1/2" to 20" furnished by 2 Spencer blowers totalling 20hp. -Database Manager
2010-01-09 - Updated through online information from William Mollema. -Database Manager
2018-06-09 - Updated by Jim Lewis, naming this as the source of information: Original contract for United Artists' organ. Estey Organ Museum.<br> According to notations on the original contract for the United Artists' Estey organ, the Brass Trumpet (along with a French Horn and English Post Horn) was made for the instrument by the Gottfried Organ Supply. -Database Manager
2019-10-07 - From a Facebook exchange on October 6 & 7, 2019...William Mollema has corrected the preceding statement about the United Artists Estey Brass Trumpet. It was made by NORSCO (National Organ Supply Co) not by Gottfried as stated in the description. -Database Manager
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