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Show .1 AMERICAN THEATER HAS ORGAN THAT RANKS AT THE TOP j A', the top is shown tin America n theater's mammoth new pipe organ a s it appears from ths Chester. The top insert is the great keyboard, showing t,h? three bauks of key:- and ti:e forty -seven stops, at well as many pedals. Below is a picture of a portion of the interior of the instrument, this being a lew of the smaller pine;; and the na rp. No-;e'that the tiny pipes seen in this picture r.re but four in:h2s in lent h and only a quarter of an inch In dimeter. The biggest pipe in the organ is thirty-two feet long and almost twenty-four inches in diameter. At the left is Professor J. J. McCleilan, who : is in charge of the- American pipe organ and concert orchestra. : i-m fiTp m -$$m ire hM ; ill W-lli 11 If 1 t 0 . (,i 1 e '' r1 1 II 1 I Si Iff f ilJIISl f,f ' vSr1 s frf I I 1 J TrlU w ! r I i i - j f f - n 1 ? J, S H,p i i MS if '4 I I I H K ' 1 tW - , t If j v ? i ww wA ti 1 f!U 1 ii-p'. f'?Hl imerican's New Organ Wonderful Instrument After months ol' work and the expenditure expen-diture of more than $";p00. the management manage-ment ot the American theater announced yesterday the 'completion of the mam moth pipe organ which places the instrument m the monster motion picture palace at tne top of all theater pipe organs in the Lnlted btates. with but one exception. While the organ at the American has always been recognized, as one of the finest instruments In the countrv. it did not exactly suit William H. hwanson. who bought the American about a rear ago. Mr. hwanson ordered that it be doubled In size 111 order that this tlieater might ment anywhere. His ambition has been : attained, the only comparable organ being- that just completed in the new Rialto theater in New York City, which is identical iden-tical with the American's in quality and possesses only seven more stops than the instrument here. Many of the parts of the American organ or-gan are identical with those in the famous fa-mous Mormon .tubernacie instrument, both haying been made by the same company. It is interesting to note that the organist organ-ist at the tabernacle and the man in charge of the American organ and the America n concert orchestra are one and the same man, Professor J. J. McCleilan. The work of Professor McCleilan needs but little comment, he having a reputation which is international as an organist and as a director of .symphony orchestras. In connection with the completion pf the urP'an, the American announces that : recitals by Professor McCleilan are to be , resumed on Tuesday evening. Professor : McCleilan wdl give recitals on Tuesday : and Wednesday evenings and on several afternoons of each week, the days to be announced later. These recitals will form , a part of the resruhir musical programme at the house, and are expected to be tremendously tre-mendously popular. ; In commenting on the new organ yesterday yes-terday Professor McClollan said: It is a matter of importance to every Utah musie-Iovcr to know that the American theater today possses in the reconstructed organ, as completed com-pleted by the Ausiin Organ company of Hartford. Conn., the largest and most superb organ to be found in any moving picture bouse today. The American organ consists of four departments, de-partments, viz: Great, swell, choir and pedal, with the echo organ provided pro-vided for in the general scheme. - It has a wealth of accessories, including couolers from one keyboard to any other in unison, sub pnd super oc- rfZ I HAk ' lZW 1 1 ? ' iIISIIIIlf nr W JL t jL im.M&& y 1 nn imi.iiMMnBMncrtltl 1 EffiF' 1 Y tavesi pistons byneans of which any complications can be effected; general combination pistons, ten of which are placed above the upper keyboard, these making possible any desired combinations controlling the entire orr gan from the great keyboard; and other accessories, including "unison ; on" and ' 'unison off," on each keyboard. key-board. i The diapason f org an tone) is noble I and dignified, a nd the reeds, which j include sixteen -foot tuba, eight-foot 1 tuba mirabilis: clarion, four-foot; two I oboes : cia r 1 n t ; E ngli sh horn ; hr, s-soon s-soon and cornopean, are rich and irue-to irue-to the character of tone thev represent. repre-sent. Thd strings wdl be' found among the chief delight of the new organ, being extremely pungent in quality' and very refined. The vox humana. harp, glockenspiel glocken-spiel and chimes, round out the wonderful won-derful tonal color scheme, not forgetting forget-ting the notable "flauto ma.ior." with beautiful flute tone of large and characteristic char-acteristic timbre, including also five other flute tones of less pow.cr and greater delicacy. The "chancellor bar" system brings the American organ up to the very last minute in the evolution of organ building, and no more complete solo organ, especially when the echo organ or-gan is installed at a future date, will be found in any theater of the world. The only organ at present comparing compar-ing with it is the Rialto theater of New York City. The 'combinations of tone yt-olor and the various tints that may be produced upon the new American organ are limitless, going into the hundreds of thousands. No organist will ever he able to bring out hut a verv small percentage of the variety of tonal combinations possible pos-sible on this remarkably fine Organ. |
