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Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc. (2013)

Unity Temple on the Plaza
707 West 47th Street
Kansas City, MO

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: KC Relo, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018 - Chancel, organ chambers and console (Photograph by Joe Routon, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church interior (Photograph by EventUp, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
35 stops
51 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

Notes

2023-07-26 - The 1262-seat building was completed in 1948. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist from Quimby web site and Charles Kegg Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Kansas City, Missouri
Unity Temple on the Plaza

Quimby Pipes Organs Inc.   2013            3 manuals, 51 registers, 35 stops, 42 ranks
Rebuild of 1950 Ernest M. Skinner, Inc., built by Carl Bassett. Mechanical restoration
of main organ, console rebuild, tonal regulation and the addition of seven ranks.
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         GREAT ORGAN                                     SWELL ORGAN
     16' Gemshorn              68                    16' Bourdon               73
      8' First Diapason        68                     8' Diapason              73
      8' Second Diapason       68                     8' Harmonic Flute        73
      8' Principal Flute       68                     8' Salicional            73
      8' Erzähler              68                     8' Voix Celeste          73
      4' Octave                68                     8' Flauto Dolce          73
      2' Fifteenth             61  a                  8' Flute Celeste (TC)    61
  1 1/3' Mixture IV           244  a                  4' Octave                73
      8' Harmonic Tuba         61  b                  4' Cor de Nuit           61
      8' French Horn           61  b                  4' Unda Maris II        146
      8' English Horn          61  b                  2' Fifteenth             61
         Reed Tremolo                             2 2/3' Mixture IV           244
                                                     16' French Trumpet        85
         CHOIR ORGAN (73 notes)                       8' Trumpet               73
      8' Harmonic Flute        SW                     8' Cor d'Amour           73
      8' Salicional            SW                        Tremolo
      8' Flauto Dolce          SW                        Harp
      8' Flute Celeste         SW
      4' Cor de Nuit           SW                        PEDAL ORGAN
  2 2/3' Nazard                61  b                 32' Acoustic Bass         --
      2' Flautino              pf                    16' Major Bass            44
  1 3/5' Tierce                61  b                 16' Gemshorn              GT
      8' Clarinet              73                    16' Bourdon               SW
         Tremolo                                      8' Major Flute (fr. 16') --
         Chimes                21 tubes               8' Gemshorn              GT
                                                      8' Still Gedeckt         SW
         ECHO ORGAN                                   4' Octave (fr. Maj.Bass) --
      8' Gedeckt               61  b                 32' Contra Bombarde (ext) SW
      8' Cello                 61  b                 16' Trumpet               SW
      8' Cello Celeste         61  b                  8' Trumpet               SW
      4' Flute                 61  b
      8' Vox Humana            61  b
         Tremolo

      a  Additions from vintage Skinner ranks
      b  From 1926 Skinner Organ Company, Opus 625

         COUPLERS                                        COMBINATIONS
         Great to Pedal      8                           General       12
         Swell to Pedal      8  4                        Swell          8
         Choir to Pedal      8                           Great          8
         Echo to Pedal       8                           Choir          8
         Swell to Great  16  8  4                        Pedal          4
         Choir to Great  16  8  4                        General Cancel
         Swell to Choir  16  8  4                        Set
         Echo on Choir       8  4
         Pedal to Choir      8                           REVERSIBLES
         Swell to Swell  16 UO  4                        Swell to Pedal
         Choir to Choir  16 UO  4                        Great to Pedal
         Great to Great     UO  4                        Choir to Pedal
         MIDI on Great                                   Full Organ
         MIDI on Swell
         MIDI on Choir
         MIDI on Pedal



[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-03-31]

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#8439 - Ernest M. Skinner, Inc. (1950)