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Kansas State University, 102A McCain Auditorium
Holtkamp Organ Company Job Number 1933 (1976)

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This organ, known as Holtkamp's Martini model, originally built for Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, was  a gift from Dr. Edward H. Sibley and his wife.  Through the generosity of his son and his wife Ed and June Sibley, this delightful organ was donated to Kansas State University and was relocated to 102A McCain Auditorium in February 2013 by Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc., the curator of the organs at Kansas State University.

The concept of the Holtkamp Martini practice organ was first discussed when Oberlin Conservatory faculty members Grigg Fountain, Arthur Poister, and Fenner Douglass met with organbuilder Walter Holtkamp at the old Oberlin Inn in the fall of 1948.  Fountain related,

     We adjourned to a new apartment in which Fenner and I had rented together—both being 
     still single—and had Martinis and put down every possibility we could think of for cross 
     duplication and unification to get the most for the least within what we then considered 
     prime musical considerations . . . the resulting organ was that first Martini . . .  It was 
     delivered early in the Spring of 1949.

John Ferguson notes, "The organ design, name the Martini in honor of the cocktail that attended its 
conception, has proved to be remarkably durable.  Over thirty of essentially the same design were in use in schools and a few churches across the country at the time of Holtkamp’s death in 1962."

Kansas State University
102A McCain Auditorium
Manhattan, Kansas
Holtkamp Organ Company, Job Number 1933 (1976)
9 voices, 5 ranks, 353 pipes


MANUAL I (unenclosed)
4 voices, 4 ranks

Gedackt 8' (61 pipes)
Principal 4' (61 pipes)
Gemshorn 2' (Extension of Gemshorn, 12 pipes)
Mixture--II ranks (122 pipes)

MANUAL II (unenclosed)
4 voices, 1 rank

Gemshorn 8' (61 pipes)
Gedackt 4' (Extension of Gedackt, 12 pipes)
Principal 2' (Extension of Principal, 12 pipes)
Larigot 1 1/3' (Extension of Gemshorn, 12 pipes)
  
PEDAL (unenclosed)
1 voice, 0 ranks

Gedackt 16' (Extension of Gedackt, 12 pipes)
Gemshorn 8' (Manual II)
Gedackt 8' (Manual I)
Principal 4' (Manual II)

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