Background
McManis was born in Kansas City, Kansas and received Bachelor of Arts and Music.
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Charles McManis
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While serving in the United States. military in Europe in World World War II he studied organs in England and France. These were described in several articles he wrote for The American Organist.
Career
B. degrees from the University of Kansas. He served as an apprentice with Austin Organs, Incorporated. and in 1938 started his own organbuilding shop in Kansas City. During his career, which spanned roughly sixty years, he built or restored nearly 140 organs across the United States. He specialized in voicing techniques that used pipe nicking.
In the 1940s he experimented with making pipes from aluminum tubing.
McManis died in Burlington, Vermont at the age of 91.
Membership
He was a charter member of the Organ Historical Society, and helped found the American Institute of Organbuilders.
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