The instrument was ordered in April 2001 by Mr. Gil Parsons and was installed in his home at Cercesco, Michigan. Robert Walker provided the tonal finishing. It was later moved to Mr. Parson’s new residence near Davidson, North Carolina. At that time Doug Powers made tonal adjustments for its new location. In that location it included a double audio system (32 speakers with two sub-woofers). In 2019 Mr. Parsons relocated to Naples, Florida and sold one-half of the speakers. He agreed to sell the instrument basic audio system, since the Florida location was not suitable for the installation of the instrument.

The new installation was done in March of 2020, with the help of Robert Walker and Dan Umholtz of Walker Technical, into the Great Room of the Richard Neidich and Ed Horvath residence near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The room is 17 by 28 feet concrete floor room with a 23-foot-high ceiling. The room is an extension of the front entry area of nearly the same size with a staircase and bridge/balcony on the second floor of the room. The speakers are installed 11 feet high above and to the left and right of the console. During the spring of 2020 Robert Walker made tonal adjustments to adjust for the acoustical environment of the Great Room.

Based upon the published specification of a Walker 3/51 instrument, subtle stop modifications to the published details were made during its original construction. MIDI in/out and headphone connectors are available for recording and playback and “silent” listening when desired.

The console is a reproduction 3 manual Wurlitzer design created by Kenney Crome and final installation of switching and sound components were performed by Walker Technical, prior to shipment to Michigan.

Two swing out drawers are utilized to expand some voice stops through the use of lighted control buttons along with manual cheek controls. Of particular note are two alternate voice controls for the Open Diapason (either Wurlitzer or E. M. Skinner samples) and the English Post Horn (either Wurlitzer or Gottfried). Fundamentally a unit organ specification, a few ranks in the Pedal Division are unique 32 note sets. The yellow tab scheme indicates when a celeste is associated with a rank, not the traditional Wurlitzer yellow for string voices.

The photo on the next page illustrates the console layout. It does not exactly follow a “Wurlitzer” layout or tab color scheme. Since the photo does not easily allow for the reading of the tab labels, a complete stop tab description follows the photo. The left three piston levels are 15 generals. The Accompaniment and Solo manuals have 15 manual pistons, while the Great has only 10. The right most 5 Great pistons are special controls. The five right most Great manual pistons are labeled Master (left and right shoe coupled), Celeste Off, H. Diapason Celeste Off, Trems Reversable and Restore. There are 8 general toe studs.