The Ruffatti Pipe Organ

The Cathedral is home to the Ruffati Organ with Rodgers MX200 Tone Module. As part of the renovation project of 2003, a pipe organ was selected, built, & installed in the Cathedral. It is a 50 rank instrument, built in Padua, Italy, by the brothers Ruffatti. Piero & Francesco Ruffatti have created a fine instrument for our worship space which is enhanced by the buoyant acoustics of the Cathedral.

The organ features many fine stops, including a specialty stop called the Tromba Pontificale or Pontifical Trumpets, which can be seen as well as heard as they flank the rose window on the south wall.

The Ruffatti organ is also equipped with a Roland MX-200 module that enables expansion of the organ to over 40 ranks.  This module seamlessly combines pipe and digital technologies playable on any of the three manuals and pedal. Through the generosity of Mr.  Hector Olivera, who donated a new bank of his personal digital samples, you can hear digitally sampled sounds from the pipes of Notre Dame and St. Sulpice Cathedral organs right here in Kansas City!  Now you can hear the sounds  Franck, Vierne and Widor heard when they composed their masterpieces!

View the Ruffati Pipe Organ stop list

View the Ruffatti Picture Gallery

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