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Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913 by David Lennox Smith, edited by Orpha Ochse and published in 2005 by the Organ Historical Society, is the standard Harris Co. history. Since its publication extensive additional information has been discovered in the papers of Eben Smith, onetime company president, at the Denver ...
The Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Organ (Chancel) - The church's original instrument, a Skinner Organ built in 1931, is immediately visible upon entering the Sanctuary, flanking either side of the Chancel. Frank C. Noon Memorial Organ (West Gallery) - In 1969, a Schlicker Organ was installed by Organist in residence, Lloyd Holzgraf. The ...
Link Piano and Organ Company; Los Angeles Art Organ Company, Los Angeles, California; Charles McManis, Kansas City, Kansas (1913–2004) Marr and Colton, Warsaw, New York (1915–1932) Midmer-Losh Organ Company, Merrick, New York; M.P. Moller Pipe Organ Company, Hagerstown, Maryland; David A. Moore, North Pomfret, Vermont [137]
Console of Robert Morton Organ at the Jefferson Theatre. The Robert Morton Organ Company was an American producer of theater pipe organs and church organs, located in Van Nuys, California. Robert Morton was the number two volume producer of theatre organs, building approximately half as many organs as the industry leader Wurlitzer. The name ...
948 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, California Incorporated 1898 [25] Dissolved 2002 Seated 1200. Now The Art of Living Foundation Rosenheim, Alfred H. Classical Revival 1910 built LAHCM 57 1968 Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Los Angeles, California library photo: 730 S Hope Street, Los Angeles, California Incorporated 1909 Relocated Seated 2000.
Today this mostly-Möller organ is the world's largest all-pipe organ in a religious structure, although the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California makes a similar claim with its two pipe organs. Möller rebuilt and expanded the Naval Academy Chapel Organ in 1940, and built the organ for the Air Force Academy Chapel in 1963.
Wright moved to Los Angeles in 1951 and in the mid 50's began making a series of recordings for Richard Vaughn's High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. label on a 5-manual, 21 rank Wurlitzer organ which Vaughn had acquired from the Paradise Theatre in Chicago (he was the first act signed to the label after its founding).
In the 1940s, he was organist at Youth for Christ rallies in the Los Angeles area for ten years, along with pianist Rudy Atwood, and at Billy Graham's Los Angeles Crusade in 1949. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] He began making organ recordings on the Sacred Records label beginning in 1945 and also had a program of organ music on the CBS Radio network.