Page Organ Company

Console of the 4-manual, 16 rank Page Theatre Organ at the Catalina Casino, in Avalon, California.

The Page Organ Company was a producer of theater pipe organs, located in Lima, Ohio.^[1]

The Page Company started very small, with a home-built organ in 1922. However, the company experienced much growth over the following decade, with a steady demand for theatre organs.^[2]

The company experienced a decline in the early 1930s with the introduction of sound films, coupled with the onset of the Depression. The company was sold to an employee named Ellsworth Beilharz in 1930, who initially assembled instruments from components purchased from the defunct Page Company.^[3]

In 1984, Beilharz sold the company to two employees, who remain in business under the name Lima Pipe Organ Company, Inc.

Current organ installations

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Catalina Casino, Avalon, California
Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne, Indiana
The Hedback Community Theatre in Indianapolis has a Page/Wurlitzer organ.
Paramount Theatre, Anderson, Indiana
Stephenson High School, DeKalb County, Georgia

Theatre organs

Theatre organ builders

traditional	Austin Balcom & Vaughan Barton Christie Compton Estey Geneva Hillgreen-Lane Hill, Norman & Beard Hope-Jones Kilgen Kimball Link Marr & Colton Midmer-Losh Möller Morton Page Reuter Robert Morton E. M. Skinner Welte-Mignon Wicks Wurlitzer

digital	Allen Conn Rodgers Walker

Notable artists

Organizations

References

↑ "ATOS Website". Retrieved 24 October 2013.
↑ "The Organ Forum". Retrieved 24 October 2013.
↑ "Lima Pipe Organ Company". Retrieved 24 October 2013.

External links

American Theatre Organ Society

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