Colorado Springs City Auditorium
221 E. Kiowa Street
Colorado Springs, CO
Images
2021 - Interior of main auditorium to front, showing stage and organ chamber grills (Photograph from an archival source: unknown, found online, submitted by Daniel Wicks/Daniel Wicks)
2017 - view of console from the floor (Photograph from an archival source: Pikes Peak Theatre Organ Society website (PPATOS.com), submitted by Daniel Wicks/Daniel Wicks)
2017 - Close-up of stoprail and keydesk (Photograph from an archival source: Pikes Peak Theatre Organ Society website (PPATOS.com), submitted by Daniel Wicks/Daniel Wicks)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Horseshoe
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Setterboard
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
Notes
2023-04-01 - "The only original Colorado Springs theatre pipe organ still in existence, this Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra is complete and almost exactly as it was originally installed in the Burns Opera House (later known as the Chief Theatre) in 1927. The original cost of the organ was $14,000.00, a significant investment when you consider a new Model A Ford that year cost about $400.
The organ was carefully dismantled and removed from the theatre in the Spring of 1973 by members of the Pikes Peak Theatre Organ Society after the theatre was condemned to demolition. Over the next few years, members invested over 5000 man-hours rebuilding the instrument and performing the installation in City Auditorium where it was rededicated in March of 1979.
The organ has eight ranks (sets of pipes or voices), for a total of just over 600 pipes, plus many tuned percussion and special effects. All the pipes and sound producing effects are located in four chambers, two on each side of the stage, stacked one above the other behind the plaster grillework."
Source: PPATOS.com -Daniel Wicks
Stoplist
Source: Pikes Peak Theatre Organ Society website (PPATOS.com) 2017
Main Chamber (left side, on 2 levels) Bass/Open Diapason 16 (1-12 Diaphone), Bourdon/Concert Flute 16 (1-12 stopped, remainder open wood), Violin 8, Violin Celeste 8, Clarinet 8
Solo Chamber (lower right side chamber) Ophicleide/Tuba Horn 16, Tibia Clausa 8, Vox Humana 8
Percussion Chamber (upper right side chamber) Chimes, Xylophone, Glockenspeil, Sleigh Bells, Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Castanets, Tom-tom, Crash Cymbal, Cymbal, Triangle, Whistle, Doorbell, Bird Call, Auto Horn, Surf
Unenclosed (behind curved section of grillwork) Chrysoglott
Source: 2005 AGO Region VI Convention booklet 2005
Great Ophicleide 16, Bass 16, Tibia 16 (TC), Viol 16 (TC), Tuba 8, Open Diapason 8, Tibia Clausa 8, Clarinet 8, Violin 8, Violin Celeste 8, Flute 8, Vox Humana 8, Tibia 5 1/3, Clarion 4, Octave 4, Piccolo 4, Viol 4, Viol Celeste 4, Flute 4, Tibia Twelfth 2 2/3, Flute Twelfth 2 2/3, Fifteenth 2, Piccolo 2, Tierce 1 3/5, Chimes, Sleigh Bells, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Chrysoglott (unenclosed)
Accompaniment Viol 16 (TC), Vox Humana 16 (TC), Tuba 8, Open Diapason 8, Tibia Clausa 8, Clarinet 8, Violin 8, Violin Celeste 8, Flute 8, Vox Humana 8, Piccolo 4, Viol 4, Viol Celeste 4, Flute 4, Vox Humana 4, Twelfth 2 2/3, Piccolo 2, Chrysoglott (unenclosed)
Solo Ophicleide 16, Tuba 8, Open Diapason 8, Tibia Clausa 8, Clarinet 8, Violin 8, Flute 8, Vox Humana 8, Octave 4, Piccolo 4, Viol 4, Flute 4, Piccolo 2, Chimes, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Chrysoglott
Pedal Ophicleide 16, Bass 16, Bourdon 16, Tuba 8, Open Diapason 8, Tibia Clausa 8, Clarinet 8, Cellos 8 (Violin and Celeste), Flute 8, Octave 4
Pedal 2nd Touch Bass Drum, Kettle Drum, Cymbal, Crash Cymbal
Accomp. Percussion Snare Drum, Tambourine, Castanets, Chinese Block, Tom-tom
Accomp. 2nd Touch Tuba 8, Open Diapason 8, Clarinet 8, Chimes, Xylophone, Triangle
Toe Studs Fire Gong, Klaxon, Boat Whistle, Bird, Surf, Horses Hoofs
Tremulants Main, Tibia, Vox, Tuba
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