Rialto Theatre - 4/ American Master
Butte, Montana
 
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Rialto Theatre, date unknown
 

Console of the American Master organ

The Rialto Theatre originally had a four-manual American Master organ installed in 1916 for a cost of $25,000. According to the Junchen Encyclopedia, the instrument featured both a four manual console and a two-manual grand piano console, both playable simultaneously and with independent registrations. The instrument had two blowers. Current status is unknown.

 

Organist Karl Wright at the console, c.1925. Photo, courtesy Ron McDonald
 

c.1927
 

Letterhead: Pacific Northwest Theatres, Inc. Harry C. Arthur Jr., Gen. Mgr.
 

Date unknown
 
 

Rialto Theatre, c.1916