• Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs Inc. is the oldest pipe organ builder in the greater northwest. The company was founded in 1921 by C.M “Sandy” Balcom, who...
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  • pharmacist Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organ, Inc., a builder of pipe organs based in Seattle This page lists people with the surname Balcom. If an internal...
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  • the Seattle firm of Balcom and Vaughan was selected to move, rebuild, and reinstall the organ as their Opus 680. A new console and new Kilgen-style electro-pneumatic...
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    horseshoe-shaped arrangements of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the instrument's keyboards on their consoles. Theatre organ consoles...
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  • "Sandy" Balcom, and Leroy "Pop" Vaughan, who both once worked for the Sherman, Clay & Co., in Seattle, went on to found Balcom and Vaughan, a pipe organ...
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  • Ashdown Audsley (1838–1925) Austin Organs, Inc., Hartford, Connecticut Balcom and Vaughan, Seattle Barton Organ Company, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Bedient Pipe Organ...
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    Christian Church (Boise, Idaho) (category Idaho building and structure stubs)
    and exhibit good craftsmanship, as does the interior woodwork. The Balcom and Vaughan theater organ, manufactured in Seattle, is one of the two extant vacuum...
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    Wurlitzer (category 1988 mergers and acquisitions)
    producing electric pianos, electronic organs and jukeboxes, and it eventually became known more for jukeboxes and vending machines, which are still made by...
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    pipe ranks and the other for percussions and sound effects. The traps and other percussions were powered directly by electric solenoids and not pneumatically...
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  • theatre organist and composer, who provided music for radio series such as Stars over Hollywood, Hollywood Theatre of Today, and Satan's Waitin' , as...
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  • Kilgen (redirect from George Kilgen and Son)
    partner in 1885, and the business was renamed George Kilgen and Son. By the turn of the century, Kilgen and Son had grown to be the largest and most well-known...
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    theatre organist, known for presenting and performing on the BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains between 1980 and the end of the show's run in 2018...
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  • prolific pipe-organ builder and businessman. A native of the Danish island of Bornholm, he emigrated to the United States in 1872 and founded the M.P. Moller...
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    organs had fallen out of fashion, and the organ was sold to Parkland's Trinity Lutheran Church by Balcom & Vaughan. Records indicate that three additional...
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    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...
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    English pipe organ builder. His business based in Nottingham and London flourished between 1902 and 1965. John Compton was born in Newton Burgoland, Leicestershire...
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  • American Theatre Organ Society (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    dedicated to preserving and promoting the theatre pipe organ and its musical art form. ATOS consists of regional member-chapters, and is led by democratically...
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  • The Link Piano and Organ Company was an American manufacturer of pianos, orchestrions, fotoplayers, and theatre pipe organs. During the early 1900s, George...
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    which has been represented continuously (albeit with different boundaries and different numbers of members) in the House of Commons since Confederation...
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    Foort (23 January 1893 – 22 May 1980), FRCO, ARCM, was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from...
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  • Jackson Marr and John J. Colton. The company built between 500 and 600 organs for theatres, churches, auditoriums, radio stations, and homes. David Marr...
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    Hinners Organ Company was an American manufacturer of reed and pipe organs located in Pekin, Illinois. Established in 1879 by German-American John Hinners...
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    The Cinema Organ Society (COS) was founded in 1952 by Hubert Selby and Tony Moss for those interested in organ music as entertainment. It is for everyone...
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    M. Welte & Sons, Freiburg and New York was a manufacturer of orchestrions, organs and reproducing pianos, established in Vöhrenbach by Michael Welte (1807–1880)...
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  • International (TOSI) was a nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting and presenting the theatre organ performance as an internationally recognized...
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    and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions...
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    Traditional Austin Balcom & Vaughan Barton Christie Compton Estey Geneva Hillgreen-Lane Hinners Hill, Norman & Beard Hope-Jones Kilgen Kimball Link Marr...
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    The first instruments were built in 1893 with the Austin Patent Airchest, and many remain in fine playing condition to this day. The Austin Organ Company...
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  • (21 April 1912 – 27 July 1998) was an English cinema organist and BBC Radio presenter and performer. Richmond was born on 21 April 1912 in Kensington,...
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  • Blue Mouse Theatre (category Buildings and structures in Tacoma, Washington)
    was organist at the Blue Mouse in 1922 and Dubois Cornish was organist in 1927. According to Balcom & Vaughan records, the organ was last used for silent...
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