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, Sesquiltera II and Trompette-en-Chamade stops were added to the organ."