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| Hilo Palace Theatre, Pipe Organ Project, Page 4, April 2005 |
| As of April 2005, volunteers have been working hard for several months to get the Palace organ back in shape. In the stage left Main chamber, three new ranks have been winded and wired in. The Tuba Horn, Post Horn and Clarinet have been added to the originally working Tibia, Flute and Diapason. A new console platform has been built on Stage Right. The temporary two manual Wurlitzer console has been moved there to control the organ while the four manual Robert-Morton console is being rebuilt.. |
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| Left: Ron Creager reconfigures the Wurlitzer console stop tabs to match the actual ranks of this installation. Below: The temporary Wurlitzer console on its new platform being reconnected. After the reconnection, the console has been turned 90 degrees to the left. |
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| Meanwhile.....in the stage right Solo Chamber............ |
| Left: The stage right Solo chamber was repaired and restored to its original function. In the 1940s this room had been converted into an apartment with a kitchen, bathroom and shower. Volunteers demolished partitions and cabinets, then patched exterior wall where windows had been installed. |
| Above left: The swell opening had been walled in. Panelling was removed, the walls patched and painted. The former Waikiki solo chamber swell shade frame (Above Right) fit perfectly in the Palace chamber. |
| Left: Tommy Stark takes a break from cleaning up the Palace Solo chamber. |
| Above: The shell of the Waikiki main chamber six rank chest is in the foreground. |
| Ron Creager & Rick Mazurowski are dwarfed by the 16' Tuba basses. |
| A hole had to be cut into the chamber ceiling to allow erection of the lowest 16' Tuba pipes. |
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| Left & below: The plain Wurlitzer console has been dressed up with ornamental appliques Mahalo to Clay Callaway for his advice. |
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| Right: Mike Kingston works on patching the outer wall where a new steel truss, for seismic strengthening, had been added in the mid-1990s. Although this truss cuts through the chamber, it does not interfere with the installation. For patching the walls, 1940 vintage tongue-and-groove planks were salvaged from the demolished apartment partitions to match the original wall planking. |
| Above: Rick Mazurowski and Mike Kingston assemble the three rank unit chest from the Waikiki solo chamber. |
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| 25 June 2005 LOWERING THE WAIKIKI BLOWER into the basement of the Palace.......... Captions and descriptions coming soon......... |
| NEW, October 2005: Scroll down to photos of the installation of the former Waikiki 4 Manual Console......... |
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| October 2005 REBUILDING THE FORMER WAIKIKI THEATRE ROBERT-MORTON CONSOLE |
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| Above Left: Ron Creager & Rick Mazurowski clean the console shell prior to repainting. Above Right: Parts of the console were spread all over the lobby. Right: The hard-working console movers Rick Mazurowski, Tommy Stark, Bob Alder & Doug Rightmer. |