Charles W. McManis Co.
Opus 62, 1963+

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.

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."

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.

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
Rebuild of 1958 Aeolian-Skinner organ that was a rebuild of 1950s Möller Opus 8089.

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.