Knight Residence - 3/18 Morton - hybrid
Portland, Oregon
Organ installation timeframe:      - 2012
 
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Kurtis Knight was a long time organist at the Organ Grinder in Portland and Uncle Milts in Vancouver. Kurtis assembled a nice theatre organ in his home which he referred to as the "Mongrel Morton." The instrument included many rare and interesting sets of pipes, percussions, and traps.
 
Kurtis passed away on Saturday November 17, 2018 in Portland from esophageal cancer. In the years just prior to his death, Kurtis sold off most of the parts from the pipe organ to help pay medical bills, but he retained an electronic organ and synthesizer which he played up until his passing.
 

Console of the Knight residence organ, August 2001.
 

Chamber view
 
Photos courtesy Steven Durham 2001
 

Rank list (one chamber):   Tibia Clausa I - Kimball Tibia Clausa II - Gottfried Concert Flute - Wicks Diapason - Wicks Salicional Celeste Violin Vox Humana I Vox Humana II - Kimball Vox Humana III Clarinet - Kimball Saxophone Orchestral Oboe Oboe Horn Tuba Horn - Kimball Brass Trumpet - Johnson Organ Co. English Post Horn - Gottfried (?) Kinura

Percussions:   Xylophone I Xylophone II Glockenspiel I Glockenspiel II Chrysoglott I Chrysoglott II Vibraphone Sleigh Bells Chimes I Chimes II Chimes III Piano Marimba Zimbelstern Traps (too many to count)