Rudolph Wurlitzer Manufacturing Co.
1928

Updated by Eric Schmiedeberg, who gave this as the source of the information: I owned the console at one time..

Consistent with the Wurlitzer shipping records and the setterboard in the console, this organ was a Style 3 Special in that it lacked a 16\' Bourdon octave. Other than the
absence of that stop tab in the Pedal, the console was consistent with a regular Style 3.

The Style 3 Wurlitzer is the earlier version of the Style 185. I have done a lot of restoration work on a 185 and compared the Style 3 setterboard with that of the 185. They are absolutely identical--if you factor the 16\' Bourdon back in to 119\'s stoplist, as I said.

The Style 3/185 in a standard free-standing case or a swell box would have been a misery to service. I have the Wurlitzer installation drawings for this model and the layout is so tight that the 25-note set of Cathedral Chimes called for have to hang outside of the box/case on the back wall.

It\'s just speculation, but my guess is that--given the Bourdon\'s normal placement in the chamber--the Bourdon was omitted to free up some space for the technicians to move around. You pick up a little bit over one foot of box depth across the back wall as a result.

Updated through online information from William Dunklin.

Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- Wurlitzer moved this organ from the Majestic Theatre, Boise Idaho, to the Ideal Theatre in 1928. It is a Style 3, II/7 originally in a free standing case. Opus 119 was moved a third time, to Trinity Lutheran in Seattle Washington.

Style 3. From the Majestic (Strand) Theater in Boise, ID. Moved to Trinity Lutheran, M.S, Seattle, OR (or only some parts used there per George Nelson?)