Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2267 (1957)

First Lutheran Church of Kansas City
6400 State Line Rd.
Mission Hills, KS

Images

1995-06-19 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1995-06-19 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1995-06-19 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
23 stops
29 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-01-08 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 31, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2010-04-02 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Console located with choir in right transept. -Database Manager

2014-03-06 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- Quimby work in 2009: Replacement of the leather on the pneumatic actions on the III/21, 1957 Austin pipe organ. Replacement of the following electro-pneumatic actions in the Austin pipe organ, with vintage actions: a. Installation of 207 Austin manual motor actions. b. Installation of 28 Austin stop actions. c. Installation of 64 Austin internal borrow actions. d. Installation of 60 Austin pedal unit actions. e. Installation of 32 Austin frog actions. Work completed August, 2009. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console on July 18, 1995 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Kansas City, Missouri
       First Lutheran Church

       Austin   Op. 2267   1957   3/25

       GREAT                SWELL
    8' Diapason          8' Hohlflöte
    8' Bourdon *         8' Viole de Gambe
    8' Gemshorn *        8' Voix Celeste
    4' Octave            4' Principal
    2' Fifteenth         4' Rohrflöte
  III  Mixture           2' Flautino
       Sub               8' Trumpet
       Unison Off        8' Vox Humana
       Super             4' Hautbois
                            Tremolo
    *  encl w/CH            Sub
                            Unison Off
       CHOIR                Super
    8' Gedeckt
    8' Dulciana             PEDAL
    8' Unda Maris       16' Diapason
    4' Nachthorn        16' Gemshorn 12 GT
2 2/3' Nazard           16' Lieblich Gedeckt 12 CH
    2' Blockflöte        8' Octave 12
    8' Clarinet          8' Gemshorn GT
       Tremolo           8' Gedeckt SW
       Sub               4' Super Octave 12
       Unison Off
       Super

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield April 02, 2010.]

Websites

Quimby Pipe Organs - Description, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)