ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
From: Ken Rosen, Nov. 1999
Jenice and I now live in Chatsworth, CA. We have moved OP 1009
innumerable times. Last Saturday, Oct 30, 99, it became playable again
on two ranks, flute and tibia. Years ago, Dave Junchen stated his
belief that Op 1009 is not actually a special D, divided, but a rebuild
of a 4-ranker with a piano console. Possible proof. "1009" is not
written on it anywhere. The words Long Beach and Long Branch were
written various places on it. The main chamber as we got it was flute,
sal, vox and trumpet, with the bottom two notes of trumpet on an offset
with bottom 12 of sal. It looked like a style "B" unto itself. Dave
said it was a style 135. The added solo was a three rank chest with
tibia, orch oboe and diapason. Odd layout, which I have kept. The
style 135 list shows 3 organs to Long Beach, Op 271, 313, and 474.
Both the original 4 rank chest and the solo 3 rank chests have lead cap
magnets.
As part of enlarging, got a 3 rank chest, flute, string, vox with "Palms
Th" written inside. It was languishing as part of a thrown together
mess in a Church in Venice, Calif, just a few miles west of the old
Palms, CA, now surrounded by Los Angeles, and west of the Palms Theatre
on Motor Ave. in Palms, which lasted until just a few years ago. The
shipping list shows a Style 108 (flute, sal, vox) went to a Palms TH in
Palms, CA. There's another casualty accounted for.
In the 70's we acquired a Style RJ player mechanism that had been taken
out of a console when an unknown RJ 7 ranker was converted into a church
organ and installed in a church in Alhambra, CA. I might be able to
track it down thru Ken Crome. With it was a small roll library with a
test roll marked "Holmby Hills, CA." It showed flute, sal, vox and
diapason. A church in Los Angeles has an RJ with this spec and we think
it is that organ.