Cook Convention Center: Auditorium
Memphis, TN
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Console (Photograph from 'The American Organist'; image courtesy of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Unknown - Building Exterior (Photograph from 'The American Organist; image courtesy of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Unknown - South Hall Interior (Photograph from 'The American Organist'; image courtesy of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Unknown - North Hall Interior (Photograph from 'The American Organist'; image courtesy of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1980-06-01 - North Hall console; Bill Oberg presiding (Photograph by Stan Hightower in the private collection of Will Dunklin/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 5 manuals
- 90 stops
- 122 registers
- 12 divisions
- 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Actually 2 organs in a double auditorium. A 70+rk organ in the North Hall, and a 40+rk organ in the South Hall. 2 consoles, larger will play both organs. Smaller organ will probably be sold. -Database Manager
2009-09-29 - Updated through on-line information from Will Dunklin. -- The Ellis Auditorium of the Cook Convention Center was razed ca. 2000. The 40 rank side was sold to Bartlett United Methodist Church. The 75 rank side was sold to an individual in California. It is currently under renovation by Marlin Mackly of Fenton Missouri. In its original installation, this organ was in nine chambers: four facing south and four facing north and a single "echo" chamber a the far end of the north side. All pipes were under expression. Of the 115 ranks, there was only one independent pedal stop, the 32' 16' 8' Bombarde. All other pedal stops were borrowed from the manuals. Wind pressures ranged up to 35 inches for the solo reeds. -Database Manager
2021-12-24 - Updated through online information from Adam Pajan, -- I am writing with an update for Kimball Op. 7035. There is some inaccurate information in the notes about the instrument. The North Hall organ was donated to St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Norman, Oklahoma in May 2014. After years of planning and fundraising, a contract has been signed with the Schantz Organ Company to renovate and install the majority of the instrument at St. Mark. The pedal originally had three independent stops, not one: a 16’ Open Diapason, a 16’ Subbass, and a unit 32’ Bombarde. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist copied from 'The Diapason' November 1927 1927
Memphis, Tennessee
Cook Convention Center
Kimball KPO 7035 1928
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NORTH HALL NORTH HALL SOUTH HALL
GREAT 10" SWELL 10" GREAT 10"
16' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73 16' Dulciana 61
8' Diapason I 61 8' Diapason 73 8' Diapason I 61
8' Diapason II 61 8' Horn Diapason 73 8' Diapason II 61
8' Diapason III 61 8' Viola 73 8' Gemshorn 61
8' Viola Diapason 61 8' Viola Celeste 73 8' Claribel Flute 61
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Salicional 73 4' Octave 61
8' Hohlfloete 61 8' Salicional Cel 73 III Mixture 183
4' Octave I 61 8' Clarabella 73 8' Trumpet 61
4' Octave II 61 8' Stopped Flute 73 Tremolo
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Octave 73 Unison Off
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Violina 73 Chimes 25
V Diapason Mixture 305 4' Flute 73 Harp 61
8' Tromba 61 2' Flautino 61
4' Tromba Clarion 61 IV Diapason Mixture 244 SWELL 10"
Tremolo 16' Contra Posaune 73 b
Unison Off 8' Trumpet 73 b 16' Gedeckt 73
Chimes 25 8' Oboe Horn 73 8' Diapason 73
Harp 61 8' Vox Humana 73 c 8' Viola 73
8' Piano 4' Clarion 73 b 8' Salicional 73
Main Tremolo 8' Voix Celeste 73
CHOIR 10" Vox Humana Vibrato 8' Rohrfloete 73
Reed Tremolo 4' Octave 73
16' Muted Diapason 73 Chimes 4' Flute 73
8' English Diapason 73 Harp 2' Flautino 61
8' Concert Flute 73 Celesta V Diapason Mixture 305
8' Dulciana 73 8' Piano 8' Cornopean 73
8' Unda Maris 73 4' Piano 8' Oboe Horn 73
8' Flauto Dolce 73 8' Vox Humana 61 c
8' Flute Celeste 61 ECHO 10" 4' Clarion 73
4' Flute Harmonique 61 Main Tremolo
2' Piccolo 61 8' Fernfloete 73 Vox Humana Tremolo
8' Orchestral Clarinet 73 8' Dolcissimo 73 Chimes
8' English Horn 73 8' Vox Angelica 73 Harp
Tremolo 4' Flute d'Amour 73
Sub 8' Vox Humana 61 c CHOIR 10"
Unison Off Unison Off
Super Main Tremolo 8' Diapason 73
Piano Vox Tremolo 8' Concert Flute 73
Harp 49 8' Dolce 73
Celesta ECHO PEDAL 8' Dolce Celeste 73
4' Flauto Traverso 73
SOLO 15" 16' Bourdon 12 EC 2' Piccolo 61
8' Clarinet 73
8' Stentorphone 73 PEDAL 10" Tremolo
8' Violaphone 73 Harp
8' Violaphone Celeste 73 32' Diapason (res) -- Celesta
8' Clear Flute 73 16' Open Diapason 32
4' Octave 73 16' Open Diapason GT SOLO 10"
IV Chorus Mixture 244 16' Subbass 32
8' Tuba Mirabilis 73 a 16' Bourdon SW 8' Principal Diapason 73
8' French Trumpet 73 a 16' Muted Diapason CH 8' Solo Cello 73
8' Tuba Sonora 73 a 16' Violone 12 SO 8' Melophone 73
8' French Horn 73 8' Octave 12 8' Tuba Mirabilis 73 d
4' Clarion 73 a 8' Bourdon 12 Tremolo
Tremolo 8' Bourdon SW Unison Off
Unison Off 4' Super Octave GT Chimes
Chimes 4' Bourdon 12 Harp
Harp 32' Bombarde 32 a
16' Piano 16' Ophicleide 12 a PEDAL
8' Piano 16' Posaune SW
4' Piano 8' Ophicleide 12 a 32' Acoustic Bass --
4' Clarion 12 a 16' Diapason 32
a 30" wind Chimes 16' Bourdon 32
b 15" wind 16' Piano 16' Solo Cello 12 SO
c 7 1/2" wind 8' Piano 16' Gedeckt SW
d 20" wind 8' Octave 12
8' Flute 12
8' Gedeckt SW
16' Trombone d 12 SO
8' Trombone d SO
Chimes
[Received from Jeff Scofield June 1, 2016]
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