The 1983 project at Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence: Opus 24
Martin Ott Opus 24 was a four-stop continuo commissioned in 1983 by Jerry Witt for a residence in La Jolla. Its cherry case uses solid raised-panel construction, granadilla naturals, white-beech sharps, and mechanical sticker action. The upper playing section separates from the lower blower section for transport.
Opus 24 carries a recorded year of 1983. The wording remains broad because the builder account for Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence does not name the milestone it marks. Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence and Greenwich, Connecticut anchor the project, and any later move or alteration belongs to a separate date. Present condition requires a present-day statement.
Reading the setting in Greenwich, Connecticut: Opus 24
The catalogue associates Opus 24 with Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence in Greenwich, Connecticut, a private rather than institutional setting. That narrows the historical context but leaves the room itself unknown. No plan, ceiling height, furniture layout, listening distance, or current address appears in the source, and none should be supplied by inference.
Scale in figures: the stops and ranks of Opus 24
Reading Opus 24 numerically starts with 4 stops and 4 ranks. For the Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence project in Greenwich, Connecticut, one number describes controls and the other describes pipe rows. No numerical gap separates stops from ranks in the Opus 24 overview. Even so, the figures cannot replace a division-by-division stop list. At Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence in Greenwich, Connecticut, that is enough to compare scale, but not enough to reconstruct manuals, Pedal, wind system, or chorus structure.
From the keyboard into the organ: Opus 24
For Opus 24 at Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence, mechanical key action is documented for the project. That separates the key command from an electric-only transmission while leaving the console relationship and tracker route undescribed. The source makes no claim about wear, noise, regulation, or playing condition today.
The Opus 24 overview also uses the term continuo. At Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence, that label identifies a compact organ type suited to accompanying voices or instruments. It does not, on its own, prove portability or a particular pitch standard. Handles, casters, divided stops, and transposition belong here only when the project history names them.
The detail that gives Opus 24 its character
The Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence project is not described by numbers alone: it was built for Jerry Witt in 1983 and it was acquired by the Greene family in 2006. In a residence, dimensions, case materials, transposition, and mobility can shape the practical value of a small organ. Only features named in the project history are attached to this instrument. The private setting does not justify assumptions about repertoire, frequency of use, or where the organ stands today. The listed 4-stop, 4-rank scale remains the numerical boundary for this reading.
Later events named in the Opus 24 account
The Greene family acquired the organ in 2006 and moved it to the Randall Greene residence in Greenwich. Captions from that year show it being serviced and cleaned at the St. Louis workshop. Heavy-duty wheels and secured pipework supported movement, while the dated workshop images provide the final event in the surviving record.
Images, sources, and the open questions for Opus 24
The former builder page associates 2 numbered image files with Opus 24; images/024/024_d.jpg appears first. The Greenwich project-number match supports identification, but it does not settle authorship or permission to publish. Caption credit offers a research lead while the licence remains unconfirmed. The page also contains 1 link carrying a different opus number; those files are excluded as documentary images of Opus 24.
The known chronology for Opus 24 ends before a present-day survey. For a current account, Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence would need to confirm the location and supply a dated specification or condition note. In the Mr. & Mrs. Randall Greene Residence account from Greenwich, Connecticut, without that material, the article can describe the documented past but not present access or performance.