[ Randy Petren wrote in 091222 MMDigest:
> ... it also had a four rank Wurlitzer player organ, without
> a console, in the bar.

I have Judd's Wurlitzer Shipment List book (1972).  The book is less
than vague about any sort of player organs but it does, once in a
while, list something like SP-PL (Leon Douglass residence Menlo Park,
Calif.) indicating a Special Player organ.  The hundreds of style
135 4-rank piano console organs have only listings like 135A, 135B,
135C, 135D.

I have been told the 135C nomenclature means the organ's player used
Concert PianOrchestra rolls.  Well, my little style 109B did _not_ use
anything as sophisticated as Concert PianOrchestra rolls, using only
common 88-note rolls.  Curiously, this same instrument has factory
indications on the switch stack as 109-C.  Regardless, on my
instrument, the operator provided all the expression, stop changes,
traps, sound effects, etc.

The Hippodrome Theatre in San Jose had a style 135B Wurlitzer.  The
photo shows, from the player controls, that it was also the economy
model 88-note job as was in my style 109B or C.  Go figure!

Getting back to your basic point, the Wurlitzer shipment list does
show the following:

Opus 1435  Elks Lodge, 1926  B PL (this is the 4-rank organ.  Still
  in place when the book was published.)
Opus 1437  Elks Lodge, 1926 SP 3M (Also still in place in 1972;
  Special 3 manual)
Opus 1491  Statler Hotel, 1926 SP (Had been moved to a church by 1972)

It is very interesting to hear that the style B in the bar had only
a player and no console.  With Wurlitzer, anything was possible as
long as the $$$$$ were tossed in the right direction.  They even built
a "portable" 2-rank instrument for pianist Vincent Lopez (Opus 887,
1924.)

Tom DeLay
Salinas, California