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Show CHARLES PEART TO BE HIST JT THE ALHAMBRA The console, or keyboard, for the big pipe organ at the Alhambra theatre the-atre reached Ogden Saturday afternoon after-noon and is rapidly being connected with the other parts of the instrument instru-ment The organ will be dedicated Wednesdav night with Charles Peart at the keyboard. Mr. Peart has heen associated with the Alhambra Theatrical company for seera years as a member of the Isis and Globe theatre orchestras and prior to his coming to America from England in 1909, has quite a reputation reputa-tion as a pianist, organist and ae-companylst. ae-companylst. In the town of Roch dale, Lancashire, England, where he was born, he succeeded his father as organist of one of the principal Methodist churches, after the latter had held the position for forty years. While in England, he studied under the following professors Piano, Mr. William Jackson. L. R A. M. I. S. M , at present professor of piano at the Conservatory of Music, South Africa, piano and harmony, Professor S. II. Hanson, F. R. C. O.; organ, Mr. David Clegg, the eminent English concert organist and composer of Queen's hall, London. He is also the posses sor of a certificate from the Trinity College of Music, London, England, for piano playing, which he gained when he was 17 years of age. The great organ which the Ogden musician is to play, was built by the Kimball Organ company of Chicago at a cost of approximately $20,000 and is said to be the largest one installed in-stalled in any moving picture theatre In the world It is the embodiment of virtually every thing known in modern organ building and contains about 2500 pipes. Among some of Its most modem features are. stop tablets, tab-lets, dipped keys, concave radiating pedals and Echo-organ. The Echo organ or-gan i8 located about 050 feet awav from the main organ. The action Is "Electric-pneumatic and wind for the main organ is furnished by a five-horsepower five-horsepower electric motor, which also generates ten volts of electricity for the action. The Echo organ has a separate one horsepower motor to turniah wind. The main organ includes in-cludes a great organ, orchestral organ, or-gan, pedal organ, and swell organ and the console has sixty stops |