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Marshall Brothers Organ Co. (1870)

Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
Ninth & Grand Ave.
Kansas City, MO

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


Unknown - Chancel and Organ Case (1870) (Photograph from the Church Archives; image courtesy of David Lewis/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (prior to 1910) (Photograph from the Church Archives; image courtesy of David Lewis/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (bottom right) (Vintage Postcard (1908); image courtesy of David W. Lewis Jr./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2011-12-10 - Identified through online information from David Lewis. -- Alexandre Guilmant played a recital on this organ on Feb. 8, 1898. -Database Manager

2012-01-14 - Updated through online information from David Lewis. -- Prior to demolition of the building in 1910, the organ was removed and rebuilt for the basement Assembly Room of the new church by E.M. Skinner, who installed a new organ in the sanctuary. Skinner added electro-pneumatic pulldown action to the slider chests and an electric Spencer blower. He used the Great mixture pipes in the 2' stops of his new organ (Opus 190) and the Swell Diapason was installed in the Choir division. The Swell Cornopean and 2' were also removed and a Salicional and Voix Celeste installed. The Greata 16' Bourdon, Twelfth, Fifteenth and 8'/4' reeds were also removed. The church encountered financial difficulties during The Great Depression and sold the organ to the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 18th and Jerome in Kansas City, Kansas, where it remained until that congregation sold its building in 1993. The organ was purchased by Quimby Pipe Organs and rebuilt for the Church of St. Johh LeLande (R.C.) in Blue Springs, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City in 1995. St. John LeLande built a new sanctuary and elected to obtain another pipe organ. Quimby re-purchased the organ and installed it in Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kitty Hawk, NC in 2001. -Database Manager


Stoplist

April 1982 Source: Stoplist from Charles McManis Date not recorded

Great
16' Bourdon
8' Diapason
8' Melodia
8' Viole d'gamba
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
4' Open Flute
2 2/3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
III Mixture
8' Trompete
4'Clarion

Swell
16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Salicional 
8' Quintadena
4' Harmonic Flute
4' Violina
2' 
8' Cornopean
8' Oboe

Pedal
16' Subbass
8' Subbass
16 Lieblich Gedackt (sw)

 [Received from David Lewis 2011-12-13.]

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