2016-06-14 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: yourobserver.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-09-13 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Rebuild and enlargement of Aeolian-Skinner rebuild of Möller organ. At this time, several original Möller and A-S Ranks were replaced with "Neo-Baroque" European Pipework. Later moved to Lewisville, Texas. -Database Manager
2008-06-28 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Rebuild of 1958 Aeolian-Skinner organ that was a rebuild of 1950s Möller Opus 8089.</i> -Database Manager
2012-07-19 - Updated through online information from Carl S Zimmerman. -- Three contracts to McManis, beginning in 1963: (1) revoice 27 ranks of Möller/Aeolian-Skinner pipes; (2) provide new console (and bench); (3) rebuild and enlarge. Subsequently sold to Church of the Annunciation, Lewisville, TX; significantly redesigned for that installation. -Database Manager
2021-10-29 - From the November 1966 issue of THE DIAPASON: "Jerome W. Meachen, organist-choirmaster, Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal), Sarasota, Fla., played the first public recital, Oct. 7, on the 59-rank instrument in whose design he collaborated. It was completed in July by the McManis Company, Kansas City, Kansas. The program appears on the recital pages . Resources of the organ include exposed great and positiv divisions installed on opposite sides of the chancel after removal of existing pseudo-Gothic organ grilles, a pedal division partly enclosed but with principal chorus unenclosed, antiphonal at rear of gallery with trompette-en-chamade chest projecting from antiphonal box. For want of sufficient height or space above the ambulatory, basses of the Gemshorn 16 ft. are exposed on the right chancel wall. The stopkey console is located on the left side of the chancel with organist facing congregation. Retained from an earlier installation the antiphonal consists of a great division and one pedal rank previously housed in a chancel chamber, its removal and reinstallation negotiated by the church under separate contract. The existing swe1i division, dating in part from 1950 and the remainder from 1959, was kept in its enlarged chancel chamber but modified and increased in size through additions and replacements of flutes, strings, reed and mixture ranks. Retained for use in the chancel pedal is the principal 16 ft. whose low octave lies horizonta1iy on the floor above the ambulatory under the chest of the new great division. Pedal subbass and posaune are enclosed with the swell. Pedal mixture is with the pedal principal pipes. In anticipation of the new installation the church removed almost-new wall-to-wall carpet substituting slate floor in nave, chancel and chapels to improve acoustical conditions. The cymbelstern was built and installed by Jack Murphy of St. Petersburg, Florida. Factory installation crew included Michael Combs, Gene Bedient and Philip McManis, voicing and tonal regulation by Charles McManis. Organ bench design by Philip McManis." -Jeff Scofield
2021-10-29 - New console by Guzowski & Steppe in the 1990's; relocated to Lewisville, Texas, by Patrick J. Murphy and replaced by 3/64 Nichols & Simpson in 2004. -Jeff Scofield
Source: From THE DIAPASON November 1966
Sarasota, Florida
Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal
McManis Op. 62 1963-66 3/59
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GREAT SWELL
16' Gemshorn 61 16' Quintaton 61
8' Principal 61 8' Geigen 73
8' Rohrflöte 61 8' Gedeckt 73
8' Gemshorn 12 8' Spitzviol 73
4' Octave 61 8' Viol Celeste 73
4' Spitzflòte 61 8' Flute Celeste II 146
2 2/3' Nazard 61 4' Principal 73
2' Blockflöte 61 4' Flute 73
1 3/5' Tierce 61 2' Gedeckt 12
IV Mixture 244 IV Small Mixture 227
8' Trumpet PD 17 III Scharf 183
Tremolo 16' Fagot 61
8' Trumpet 73
PEDAL 4' Clarion 61
32' Resultant -- Tremolo
16' Principal 32 8' Trompette-en-Chamade AN
16' Subbass 32
16' Gemshorn GT POSITIV
16' Quintaton SW 8' Gedeckt 61
10 2/3' Quint -- 4' Prestant 61
8' Principal 12 4' Koppelflöte 61
8' Gedeckt 12 2' Principal 61
4' Octave 12 1 1/3' Quinte 61
4' Spitzflöte GT 1' Octave 61
2' Gedeckt -- III Cymbel 183
III Mixture 96 8' Krummhorn 61
16' Posaune 32 Tremolo
16' Fagot SW
8' Trumpet 12 ANTIPHONAL
8' Fagot SW 8' Bourdon 61
4' Clarion 12 8' Salicional 61
4' Fagot SW 8' Vox Celeste 49
4' Principal 61
ANTIPH. PEDAL 4' Rohrflöte 61
16' Bourdon 32 2 2/3' Twelfth 61
8' Bourdon 12 2' Octave 61
IV Fourniture 244
8' Trompette-en-Chamade 61
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