Organ Known as the Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra, in the Paris Theatre, Denver, Colorado
This fine instrument was installed in May, 1913, and hailed by the people of Denver with great enthusiasm. The president of the Paris Theatre Company, writing under date of June 9, says:
“The wonderful instrument * * * is proving a source of interest to the whole city and has materially added to the fame of ‘The Paris’ as the leading picture theatre of Denver. No thirty-piece orchestra could accompany the pictures so well as the Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra does. Neither would it so completely carry away with enthusiasm the crowd that flock to hear it.”
Only the keyboards are visible from the auditorium; the instrument is placed on each side of the proscenium, occupying the place of the usual stage boxes, the tone being reflected into the theatre through ornamental case work. The 32-foot open diaphone is located behind the picture screen. The specification:
PEDAL ORGAN (32 NOTES).
FEET. FEET. Diaphone 32 Octave 8 Ophicleide 16 Clarinet 8 Diaphone 16 Cello 8 Bass 16 Flute 8 Tuba Horn 8 Flute 4 Bass Drum, Kettle Drum, Crash Cymbals—Second Touches. Great to Pedal; Solo Octave to Pedal. Diaphone 32 ft. Second Touch; Ophicleide 16 ft. Pizzicato Touch. Six Adjustable Toe Pistons.
ACCOMPANIMENT ORGAN (61 NOTES).
FEET. FEET.
Vox Humana (Ten C) 16 Octave Celeste 4
Tuba Horn 8 Flute 4
Diaphonic Diapason 8 Twelfth 2 2/3
Clarinet 8 Piccolo 2
Viole d’Orchestre 8 Chrysoglott 4
Viole Celeste 8 Snare Drum
Flute 8 Tambourine
Vox Humana 8 Castanets
Viol 4
Triangle, Cathedral Chimes, Sleigh Bells, Xylophone, Tuba Horn, Solo to Accompaniment—Second Touches.
Flute, Solo to Accompaniment—Pizzicato Touch.
Ten Adjustable Combination Pistons.
One Double Touch Tablet to cause the Pedal Stops and Couplers to move so as at all times to furnish automatically a Suitable Bass.
GREAT ORGAN (61 NOTES).
FEET. FEET. Ophicleide 16 Clarinet (Ten C) 16 Diaphone 16 Contre Viole (Ten C) 16 Bass 16 Tuba Horn 8 Diaphonic Diapason 8 Flute 4 Clarinet 8 Twelfth 2 2/3 Viole d’Orchestre 8 Viol 2 Viole Celeste 8 Piccolo 2 Flute 8 Tierce 1 3/5 Vox Humana 8 Chrysoglott 4 Clarion 4 Bells 4 Viol 4 Sleigh Bells 4 Octave Celeste 4 Xylophone 2 Octave, Solo to Great. Ophicleide, Solo to Great—Second Touches. Solo to Great Pizzicato Touch. Ten Adjustable Combination Pistons.
One Double Touch Tablet to cause the Pedal Stops and Couplers to move so as at all times to furnish automatically a Suitable Bass.
SOLO ORGAN (37 NOTES).
FEET. FEET.
Tibia Clausa 8 Quintadena 8
Trumpet 8 Cathedral Chimes 8
Orchestral Oboe 8 Bells 4
Kinura 8 Sleigh Bells 4
Oboe Horn 8 Xylophone 2
Six Adjustable Combination Pistons.
GENERAL.
Two Expression Levers, two Indicating and Controlling Keys, Thunder Pedal (Diaphone), Thunder Pedal (Reed), Two Tremulants, Re-Iterator for Strings, Re-Iterator for Solo.
One Double Touch Sforzando Pedal, First Touch, Full Stops, Second Touch, Percussion.
One Double Touch Sforzando Pedal, First Touch Snare Drum, Second Touch Bass Drum, and Crash Cymbals.