Andrew Larson I don't know why you think the character of the instrument has been changed. The. tibia which had what I felt was the overly oppressive 12th character was gone from the instrument after Frank Lanterman owned it. Rob Richards requested that a tibia similar to the one George Wright had in the instrument in the Fox be put in the solo chest and it was done. Others have claimed that the organ was somehow voiced down. That is not true. In fact some ranks were regulated louder because the swell openings in the foundation and orchestral divisions are much smaller than in the Fox. The real difference is the buildings. The El Capitan will never be the SF Fox. The installation was planned and done by the late George Buck who had been an executive with Wurlitzer. He had to find a way to fit 37 ranks into a building whose chamber space was for a 16 rank organ. I think he did a good job. I was chief of maintenance for a couple of years. The Fox sounds are there but lacking the big reverb. Johnny Hoffman

James, when the El Cap opened after the DIsney restoration, the first film shown was "The Rocketeer"! Can you imagine that build-up intro and then the first frame of that film, which was a slide of the hangar door opening with the title "Los Angeles, 19..." whatever? You were THERE! It was amazing!