Forwarded from a letter last year (!) from Piporg-l list:

> From: Jim Weisenborne <JJWEISEN%OCC.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU>
> Subject:      Larkin Administration Building>

The organ that was installed in the Larkin Administration Building was a
Moller of about 60 or so ranks. If you need more details, let me know.
The organ had attached to it a Moller Artiste player and a 9' Chickering
piano. The Larkins originally purchased the organ from Moller with the
understanding that they would be getting a fully automatic reproducing
player organ unit. Moller had no such player. But they didn't tell
Larkin that. Instead, they hired Mr. Frederick Hoschke to design their
rolls. Larkin even gave him a room in the building to lay out the rolls.
The player unit was originally built on site and installed in the
4-manual console. The Larkin organ was played frequently over the radio
and there were several AGO meetings in the building.

How do I know this? Well, Allen Organs didn't get everything from the
factory. I rescued all the Moller master rolls, correspondence, organ
registration sheets and player parts a few years before Moller went out
of business. And just in time, too. The roof of the shed in which the
rolls were stored had already begun to collapse. Last year I donated the
master rolls and the perforator to The Music House in Traverse City,
Michigan where they plan to create an exhibit and connect an Artiste
player to one of the pipe organs.

I still have all of the original correspondence, however. What
interesting reading.

Jim Weisenborne