Ernest M. Skinner Company
Opus 190, 1910
Grand Avenue Methodist Temple
205 E. Ninth Street
Kansas City, MO, US
55 Ranks - 2,869 Pipes
Instrument ID: 5628 ● Builder ID: 7401 ● Location ID: 5343
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal46 Stops70 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
To be restored and relocated to Toney Auditorium, Wesleyan University, Macon, Georgia, in the Summer of 2027.
Randy Terry on March 29th, 2022:
The church has disbanded, and the organ has been removed and is in the care of Quimby Pipe Organs, in storage.
Database Manager on April 5th, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The organ was altered by Ernest Skinner in 1949, but is otherwise intact.
Database Manager on August 8th, 2009:
Updated through online information from David Lewis. -- The Dedicatory Recital was played by Edward KREISER, a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant.
Database Manager on August 8th, 2009:
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 on August 8th, 2009:
Updated through online information from David Lewis.
Database Manager on December 1st, 2005:
Updated 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:
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.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1996
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
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.
Webpage Links: Grand Avenue Temple [Opus 190 page] , Grand Avenue Temple , Opus 190 - Grand Avenue Methodist Church
Related Instrument Entries: E.M. Skinner, Inc. (1949)
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