McManis Organ Co.
1978

The organ has a 3-manual Reuter console.

This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, using information from this web site: http://fpcbok.org/ministries/pipe.php: According to the church's website (About Us--->Music--->Pipe Organ), "An Organ Committee raised money, studied organs, did an "organ crawl" to Kansas City and selected the McManis Organ Company, established in 1939, to build our organ. According to the Dedication program, Charles McManis was probably "the first of a new breed of musically-trained organist/organ builders". McManis "reasoned that the age-old search throughout organ building history as been a search for power and color". He discovered that classic ensemble "corroborating stops" knit into much tighter, richer sound, if foundation voices have harmonic content to corroborate. He found, too, that harmonically rich sounds seem to fill a room, wall-to-wall, and thereby project music's dissonances and their resolutions as intimate audio-physical experience, regardless of dynamic level. This, after all, is the "stuff of music, whether classic, romantic or contemporary. And what more could one want?" On April 2, 1978, the new McManis organ was dedicated. This 3 manual organ cost $105,000 and had 39 ranks, 49 stops with 2,226 pipes. Some modification to the church was necessary to accommodate it. Later the Zimblestern, Sesquialtera II and Trompette-en-Chamade stops were added to the organ."