ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
From: Terry Kleven, April 2012
Originally a 3-manual console with a single row of stopkeys, Bernie added a second row of
stopkeys (beautifully engineered and completed, but without benefit of combination action)
and raised the upper portion of the console to accommodate the resulting additional height.
I had that console in my inventory for several years – it even spent many months in one of the front
display windows of our office supply products store in downtown Joliet, Illinois.
It was sold about 1983 or 1984 to a gentleman in Houston who now lives in Mexico.
I lost track of its whereabouts after that point.
A mention was made (in the video "My Wife Said That's Enought) of using “3 gallons of varnish” – that would have been more along the
lines of about 30 gallons of varnish! Absolutely everything in that instrument had received several
coats of high-gloss varnish to the point that most of the chests, percussions and such looked as if
they had been ‘candy-apple’ coated!
In several shots in the first portion of the video, one can see those multiple-point screw-type electrical junctions.
Everything in the organ had been reassembled using those multi-strip units and each offset chest cable had been cut
off about 2 or feet from the butt junction, a multi-screw strip screwed to the component and the wiring spread out to those.
It worked well but suffered, cosmetically, from those very home-hobbyist-looking treatments.
The major chest components of the organ, and much of its corresponding pipework, were incorporated into the original
1983 installation in the Classic Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is most likely now part of Phil Maloof’s home installation(s).
The original wood bar harp went to Albuquerque while the swell shades and balance of the percussions
were parted out as excess at that time.