Grand Avenue Methodist Temple
205 E. Ninth Street
Kansas City, MO
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1995-06-19 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1995-06-19 - Chancel, Pipe Facades, and Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1995-06-19 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, Image Courtesy of David Lewis/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console and Choir (1929) (Photograph from the Church Archives; image courtesy of David Lewis/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Chancel and Pipe Façades (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Façades (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Left Pipe Façade (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Tiffany Stained Glass Windows and Ceiling (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Tiffany Stained Glass Windows and Ceiling (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Console (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Console (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
2012-03-25 - Manuals and Coupler Tablets (Photograph by Sophy Tao/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 4 manuals
- 46 stops
- 70 registers
- 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 (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Additions (11rk) in 1948 by E. M. Skinner & Son. Renovated by Quimby Pipe Organs, c. 1994. Played at 1996 Region VI AGO Convention. Upperwork EM Skinner suggested be added to Opus 190: Great: 2-2/3 Twelfth; 2 Fifteenth; Choir: 2-2/3 Nazard, 1-3/5 Tierce, 1-1/3 Larigot, 1-1/7 Septieme; Pedal: 5-1/3 Cornet Mixture (160 pipes, 5-1/3, 4, 2, 1-3/5) On the Swell is a 2-2/3 Mixture III Rks, footnoted as returned to original composition in 1995. -Database Manager
2005-12-01 - Updated 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>Extant; dedicated February 13, 1912 by Edward Kreiser; eleven ranks added in 1948 at the suggestion of E.M. Skinner, but not built by him; restorative repairs by Michael Quimby in 1995. </i> -Database Manager
2009-08-08 - Updated through online information from David Lewis. -- E. M. Skinner replaced the Swell 8' Claribel Flute with an 8' Flute Celeste II in 1948-49. The other additions were made at the suggestion of Skinner and carried out by Ernest M. Skinner, Inc. (Carl Bassett) in 1951. -Database Manager
2009-08-08 - Updated through online information from David Lewis. -- The Dedicatory Recital was played by Edward KREISER, a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant. -Database Manager
2009-08-08 - Updated through online information from David Lewis. -Database Manager
2012-04-05 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The organ was altered by Ernest Skinner in 1949, but is otherwise intact. -Database Manager
2022-03-29 - The church has disbanded, and the organ has been removed and is in the care of Quimby Pipe Organs, in storage. -Randy Terry
2024-11-21 - To be restored and relocated to Toney Auditorium, Wesleyan University, Macon, Georgia, in the Summer of 2027. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Kansas City, Missouri
Grand Avenue Methodist Church
The Ernest M. Skinner Co. Opus 190 1910 4 manuals, 46 stops, 55 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (6" wind) SWELL ORGAN (8" wind)
16' Bourdon 17 PED 16' Bourdon 73
8' Philomela PED 8' Diapason 73 a
8' First Diapason 61 a 8' Spitz Flute 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Gedeckt 73
8' Waldflöte 61 8' Salicional 73
8' Erzähler 61 8' Voix Celeste 73
4' Octave 61 8' Flute Celeste II 110 b
4' Flute 61 8' Aeoline 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 (1951) 8' Unda Maris II 134
2' Fifteenth 61 (1951) 4' Octave 73
8' Tuba SO 4' Flute 61
Chimes (in SW) 25 tubes 2' Flautino 61
III Mixture (12.15.17) 183
CHOIR ORGAN (7" wind) 16' English Horn 73
16' Gamba 73 8' Cornopean 73
8' Diapason 73 8' Oboe 73
8' Gamba 73 4' Clarion 61
8' Concert Flute 73 Tremolo
8' Quintaton 73
8' Dulcet II 146 PEDAL ORGAN
4' Flauto Traverso 61 32' Diapason (8") 32
2 2/3' Nazard 61 (1951) 16' Diapason 12
2' Piccolo 61 16' Violone 32 c
1 3/5' Tierce 61 (1951) 16' First Bourdon 32
1 1/3' Larigot 61 (1951) 16' Second Bourdon SW
1 1/7' Septième 61 (1951) 16' Gamba CH
8' Clarinet 73 10 2/3' Gross Quint -- (1st Bdn)
8' English Horn 73 8' Octave 12
8' Vox Humana 73 8' Gedeckt 12
Tremolo 8' Gamba CH
Carillons V Cornet Mixture 190
16' Ophicleide SO
SOLO ORGAN (7" wind) 16' English Horn SW
8' Philomela PED 8' Tuba SO
8' Gamba GT 4' Clarion SO
8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Concert Flute CH COUPLERS
4' Flauto Traverso CH Swell to Pedal 8 4
16' Ophicleide (20") 61 Choir to Pedal 8 4
8' Tuba 12 Great to Pedal 8
8' Clarinet CH Solo to Pedal 8 4
8' English Horn CH Swell to Great 16 8 4
8' Orchestral Oboe CH Choir to Great 8
8' Vox Humana CH Solo to Great 16 8 4
4' Clarion 12 Swell to Choir 8
Tremolo Swell to Swell 16 4
Carillons CH Choir to Choir 16 4
Solo to Solo 16 4
COMBINATION ACTION Great to Great 4
General 1-2
Great Organ 1-2-3-4 EXPRESSION
Swell Organ 1-2-3-4-5 Balanced Swell Pedal
Choir Organ 1-2-3-4 Balanced Choir-Solo Pedal
Solo Organ 1-2-3-4 Crescendo Pedal
Pedal Organ 1-2-3-4 (toe)
Set
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-10]
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