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Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 56 (2003)

Kirkwood Baptist Church: Sanctuary
201 North Woodlawn Ave.
Kirkwood, MO

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
32 stops
59 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2003. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Slider chests. Replaced a 2nd hand Pilcher. -Database Manager

2005-09-19 - Online update from Ray Smithee: 16-8 Bourdon, Swell Flutes 8-4-2, Great Harmonic Flute 4' retained from the Pilcher. -Database Manager

2007-06-27 - Identified through online information from Ray Smithee. -- In the style of T. C. Lewis. Organ contains a beautifully voiced English Tuba on 15 inches of wind. Natural keys are ivory from an Aeolian-Skinner organ. The 8' Open Flute in the Choir is a Kimball rank that was in one of the earlier organs at the Mormon Tabernacle. -Database Manager

2012-09-07 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From builder's website Date not recorded

Kirkwood, Missouri
Kirkwood Baptist Church

Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.   Opus 56   2003     3 manuals, 32 stops, 42 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                         SWELL ORGAN
     16' Stopped Flute (Sw)     --       16' Stopped Flute          73
      8' Principal              61        8' Stoped Flute (fr. 16') --
      8' Chimney Flute          61        8' Viola                  61
      8' Gemshorn (Ch)          --        8' Viola Celeste (GG)     54
      4' Octave                 61        4' Principal              61
      4' Spire Flute            61        4' Harmonic Flute         61
      2' Fifteenth              61        4' Fugara                 61
  1 1/3' Mixture IV            244    2 2/3' Nazard                 61
     16' Oboe (Sw)              --        2' Piccolo                61
      8' Trumpet (Sw)           --    1 3/5' Tierce                 61
      8' Clarinet (Ch)          --        2' Mixture IV            244
      8' Tuba (Ch)              --       16' Oboe                   73
         Chimes                           8' Trumpet                73
                                          8' Oboe (fr. 16')         --
         CHOIR ORGAN                      4' Clarion (fr. 8')       --
      8' Open Flute             61           Tremolo
      8' Gemshorn               73
      8' Gemshorn Celeste (TC)  49           PEDAL ORGAN       
      4' Principal              61       32' Contra Bourdon         56 *
      4' Night Horn             61       16' Principal              44 *
      4' Gemshorn (fr. 8')      --       16' Bourdon (fr. 32')      --
      2' Octave                 61       16' Stopped Flute (Sw)     --
  1 1/3' Quint                  61        8' Octave (fr. Prin)      --
      1' Piccolo                61        8' Bourdon (fr. 32')      --
      1' Mixture III           183        8' Gemshorn (Ch)          --
      8' Clarinet               61        4' Fifteenth (fr. Prin)   --
      8' Tuba                   73        4' Stopped Flute (Sw)     --
      4' Tuba (fr. 8')          --        2' Mixture III            96
         Tremolo                         32' Contre Bombarde (Sw)   -- *
         Cymbelstern                     16' Bombarde (Sw)          --
                                         16' Oboe (Sw)              --
                                          8' Trumpet (Sw)           --
                                          8' Oboe (Sw)              --
                                          4' Clarion (Sw)           --
                                          4' Clarinet (Ch)          --
                                          8' Tuba (Ch)              --
                                          4' Tuba (Ch)              --

                                          *  1-12 digital


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-06-18]

Websites

Kirkwood Baptist Church [Quimby web site] - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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