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Charles W. McManis Co. Opus 46 (1960)

St. John's Unitarian Church
320 Resor Avenue, Clifton
Cincinnati, OH

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2004-10-30 - Sliderless setterboard combinations. -Database Manager

2008-04-06 - Updated through on-line information from Emily Adams. -Database Manager

2015-02-23 - Updated through online information from Don Hurd. -- Truly, an unloved, unused organ. Congregation needs an organist/director, but all their music is done in front, and the organ's in back. -Database Manager

2019-02-14 - Updated by Carl S Zimmerman, naming this as the source of information: Charles McManis\' autobiography, cited in full on OHS Website, pp.146,170,182,255,286,330,396. <br> <br> -Database Manager

2022-09-19 - Information provided to the DB by Ryan Boyle of Muller Pipe Organs, which maintains this instrument: This organ has mechanical key action, but not slider chests. They are an unusual ventil chest design whereby a pallet feeds a key channel, but instead of sliders, the stop action achieved by leather membranes, one per pipe, in what almost look like long pouch boards. These pouch boards are fitted to the underside of the wind chest. When a stop is off, each pneumatic or pouch is inflated. When the stop is on, the pouches vent to atmosphere, and the wind from the key channel is allowed to pass to the pipe. -Thurlow B. Weed


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