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OHS Pipe Organ Database
Instrument Details |
Palace Theatre
38 Haili St
Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii 96720
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- Building/Room: Auditorium
- Robert Morton (1929, Opus 2507).
- Current Status: rebuilt or substantially revised. (Last update 2009-09-17.)
- 4 manuals. 2 divisions. 156 stops. 17 ranks. 61-note manuals. 32-note pedals.
- Electro-pneumatic unit chests [with pouchboards].
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The organ is in chambers to the sides at the front of the room. There are no visible pipes.
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Horseshoe style console.
Console in fixed position, left.
Stop keys in horseshoe curves.
Balanced swell shoes/pedals, standard AGO placement.
Combination Action: Computerized/Digital system.
Concave radiating pedalboard.
Crescendo Pedal.
Combination action thumb pistons.
- Additional notes.
- Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ moved in 1940 to the Hilo Theatre. (Database Manager. 2006-10-26)
- Updated through on-line information from Bob Alder. -- This organ survived two tsunamis (1946 & 1960) in its second home, the Hilo Theatre. The original 3 manual console was destroyed in the 1960 tsunami. The pipes and chests were reinstalled in a Honolulu home with a replacement 2 manual console. It was given back to the Palace Theater for reinstallation as part of the Palace restoration project. It has been rebuilt, reinstalled and enlarged with pipes, chests and the 4 manual Robert-Morton console from the Waikiki Theatre. When finished, this organ will have 20 ranks plus tuned percussions and non-tonal traps. (Database Manager. 2008-08-11)
- Updated through on-line information from Bob Alder. (Database Manager. 2009-09-17)
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