Robert Heilbuth

Updated through on-line information from Richard Moody. -- I knew Robert Heilbuth from 1970 to 1988. He composed original tunes for his band organs and punched by hand the rolls. I hope these rolls have been preserved.

On-line update from Timothy Tikker -- Organ's current status: still in storage, in Yucaipa, California; the player rolls are in storage at the original residence on 10th avenue in San Francisco. The current owner of the organ is currently working to find a suiable residence in which to locate the organ in Michigan. Position of organ in room: distributed around complete circumference of 12.5' x 16' dining room with 9' ceiling. Key action: tracker Manual II with tublar upper extension d#'''-f'''; electro-pneumatic Manual I; tubular and electro-pneumatic Pedal. Slider chest for tracker manual; non-slider for rest. mechanical stop action for tracker manual, electr0-pneumatic for rest. Stop controls for tracker stops are drawknobs, moving sideways in a variety of positions and angles. Stop controls for electro-pneumatic stops are a set of rosewood rocking tablets to the right side of the lower manual; Pedal stops are side-ways moving levers

Upper manual tracker (chest from 18th-century German tracker), lower manual EP, pedal EP & TP; portions playable via 3 roll-player mechanisms (plus additional portions not manually playable). Built by Heilbuth over many years, including pipes he made as a youth in Hamburg. (Adjacent room has Heilbuth-built band organ, roll-player only) (Robert is a now-retired piano tuner, with whom I worked for a few years). Given to Timothy Tikker 2003 and placed in storage.