Pale Moon's message is that "Indians are real people. I allow them to use me so I can get my message across." I know that sometimes I'm the token Indian, but that's okay. "I know that some Indians look at what I do and think I'm an Apple Indian: you know, red on the outside and white on the inside.
Even more than when her classmates used to call her squaw.īut Pale Moon says she will endure. "That hurt," she says, hurt more than anything. "She said I was the Republican Party's Indian," Pale Moon recalls. She had sung at the GOP National Convention in 1976 and again in 1980, and now as she stepped lightly into the living rooms of television's millions, Barbara Walters singled her out: She had played Europe for the USO, Montreal for the Olympics and Monday Night Football when the Cowboys met the Redskins. Her fame had grown during the Bicententennial, when she was invited to be the Indian on the reviewing stand for ceremonies in 150 cities and towns across the country. Now three television networks would focus on her. The five-foot Cherokee Indian who calls herself "America's Contemporary Pocahontas" had started in show business when she was 8, and spent more than 30 years on the road. She marched behind the Dixon High Marching Dukes, the president-elect's home-town band. Two eagle feathers in her hair, she led a pony down Pennsylvania Avenue in Ronald Reagan's inaugural parade. Kimball stopped making organs in 1983 and pianos in 1996, but continues to make their line of furniture and fixtures, as well as piano cabinets for other companies.IT WAS supposed to be a grand day for Princess Pale Moon. The Starbrite, Starmaker, Strummer and 3-manual theatre Model 653 were the Conn models introduced by Kimball to the You can tell a Conn organ made by Kimball because the thumb pistons on Conn were Kimball bought the organ corporationĪlmost immediately and manufactured organs under both the Kimball and Conn names. In 1979, the Conn Organ Corporation went out of business, but Conn still continues to make band instruments to this day. The Entertainer was a division of stops that included one-finger chords, Swinger-Bass, Solo Chord and other Easy-Play features. The built-in Leslie gave the tibias a true theatre The mainstream tonesĬould have been voiced better and the diapason was terrible (several home organ manufactures missed the boat on that one). The instruments had good sounding flutes or tibias,Ī very realistic reed section, very articulate percussion stops and was one of the first to develop the symphonic-type string tones with built in celesting.
Kimball carried a full line of organs from the small one-manual Swinger 80 to the full-featured console Xanadu. The tone was deplorable! A few years later, they went to all transistor technology and made a mark in the home market.
These instruments used a photo-electric cell generator amplified with vacuum tubes,Īnd were not successful. In 1961, Kimball came out with its first electronic, or rather electric, organs. In 1959, Kimball was purchased by the Jasper Corporation and moved to Jasper, Indiana.
Of course, we all know Kimball for its line of fine pianos and they also manufactureįurniture. In the silentįilm era, Kimball built many theatre pipe organs and they may still be heard across the land. Kimball also did one of the rebuildings of the great Mormon Tabernacle organ in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Three ranks of free reeds to replace the longer pedal pipes.
He developed portable pipe organs that used William Wallace Kimball founded the Kimball Organ Company in Chicago in 1857, manufacturing reed and pipe organs.