1926 Robert Morton Organ - Kansas City Municipal Auditorium Music Hall - Kansas City, Missouri

Published 2024-04-21
Brent Johnson, Marvin Faulwell, and Marc Dorsett explore the 1926 Robert Morton organ installed in the Music Hall of the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. This organ was originally installed in the Loew’s Midland Theatre in Kansas City.

Specification of the organ: pipeorgandatabase.org/instruments/4584#stoplists

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All Comments (21)
  • @bootman26
    What a great video!! Kudos to everyone who kept this gorgeous instrument alive.
  • @Dr.EdMontoya
    What an amazing instrument, well demonstrated by an accomplished organ master. Well done to all participating in keeping a bit of history alive. Thank you!
  • @markwunder7748
    I've been to Music Hall for many shows and never new there was an organ there. Amazing. I'll have to pay more attention to it. (It's only an hour's drive from where I live)
  • @DrpanProductions
    Nice to hear a different take on the Theater organ style from a company that wasnt Wurlizter
  • @Conn653
    I know what it's like to tune an instrument of this magnitude. I helped to restore and install a 3/18 Wurlitzer in a performing arts center. Oh - I get to play it, too 🙂 It's FUN!
  • @buttersrow426
    There was a guy in Rhode Island who had a Robert-Morton 2/6 theatre organ in his home and eventually expanded to 3/11 using ranks from Wurlitzer, Kimball and various other sources.
  • @paulh5293
    What a beautiful sounding instrument. Morton is a new name to me so really pleased that such a fine piece of work served as my introduction! Definitely a cast of "pipes and chests crammed everywhere"... having said that, a luxuriously spacious installation compared to that at the BBC Radio Theatre in London where Compton installed a 4/33 organ in chambers measuring 40ft wide, 30ft high but only 6ft deep! Perplexed by all the unfilled holes in various chests plus many pipes lying unused... is this because of failures in the chests? Whatever, a brilliant video and again made incredibly interesting by Brent's narration. Thank you for posting.
  • Just totally fabulous, thank you so much, so interesting and amazing! Love all your work Brett, please keep it up and keep going!!!! Cheers. Adrian in Bermuda ❤️❤️❤️
  • @TheOrgan1st
    Just went through Kansas City a few hours ago
  • @gmc0422
    Have you been out to Santa Barbara, CA to see the 1920-something Wonder Morton in the Santa Barbara Performing Arts Centre (AKA the Arlington Theatre) yet? It was originally in the Loews' Jersey City Theatre. I think it started out as a IV/22 and has had several ranks added over the years.
  • @Captionmarvelous
    Wonderful organ! How did the get all that equipment in those chambers? Someone had to have a good eye for how it would all go back together!