Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-11-24 - Identified from the Reuter Opus List, provided by Chris Leaver, Reuter Organ Co., November, 2005. -Database Manager
2013-07-03 - Updated through online information from Randal J. Loy. -- I tracked down the whereabouts through a request published in the national AGO magazine, July, 2013.<br>Reuter Organ Opus 74 was sold out of Epperson House. Mr. Epperson had died first, and when Mrs. Epperson died, the house became the property of the man who was Mr. Epperson's business protégé and who had succeeded him as head of Epperson's insurance brokerage company. This man did not want the house; he was unmarried and did not need a 56-room mansion. He donated the house to the University of Kansas City, the campus of which adjoined the property on which Epperson had built the house. <br>In 1943, the University of Kansas City offered for sale the Reuter organ in Epperson House. Walmer Augustus "Gus" Brummer (1905-1995), at one time a representative for the largest district M. P. Moller Pipe Organ Company ever had, apparently purchased Reuter Opus No. 74 from the Epperson House, and during the difficult times of World War II, he dismantled the organ to sell it for parts. <br>He told one of his assistants that he "put the Epperson House organ in Niedringhaus Methodist Church" in Granite City, Illinois, but I have contacted Jack Jenkins, who is intimately acquainted with that instrument, which is a Kilgen organ, and he does not believe that any part of the Niedringhaus Methodist Church organ comes from Reuter Opus 74. He was involved in dismantling that organ and rebuilding it when the church building had to be rebuilt, and so he is in a position to know the individual parts of that organ. He feels very strongly that Mr. Brummer, whom he also knew very well by association, unquestionably would have purchased the Epperson House organ merely to use for parts. -Database Manager
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