| Name of institution |
Lockyer Uniting Church |
| Type of institution |
Church |
| Street Address |
Townsend Road |
| City |
Lockyer (Albany) |
| State |
Western Australia |
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| Country |
Australia |
| Name of building |
Lockyer Uniting Church |
| Name of room |
Church sanctuary |
| Dates of the building |
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| Date of previous organs |
None |
| Detail of previous organs |
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| Dates when key work has been undertaken |
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| Present organ |
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| Type of installation |
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| Case description |
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| Placement in room |
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| Builder's name |
Alfred Kirkland, London. |
| Opus number |
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| Date of completion/installation |
1890 |
| Construction materials |
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| Number of manuals |
Two (2) |
| Key compasses |
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| Number of keys |
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| Key material |
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| Pedal compass |
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| Number of pedals |
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| Pedalboard type |
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| Pedalboard material |
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| Type of chests |
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| Type of key action |
Tracker |
| Type of stop action |
Mechanical |
| Couplers |
Swell to great, Great to pedal |
| Tremulants |
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| Accessories |
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| Console type |
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| Stop label material |
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| Placement |
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| General design |
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| Playing aids |
Hand blown |
| Divisions |
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| Wind pressures |
Great: 8, 8 Swell: 8, 4, Pedal: 16 (added in Sydney) I believe.
Swell to great,
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| Stop list |
| GREAT |
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| Open diapason |
8' |
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| Stop diapason |
8' |
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| SWELL |
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| Gamba |
8' |
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| Principal
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4' |
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| PEDAL |
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| Bourdon
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16' |
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| Total number of stops |
Five (5) |
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| Total number of pipes |
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| Dates when key work has been undertaken on current
organ |
Bellows repaired May 1894 before installation at Wesley Church.
Bellows altered 1918 by John Watts.
Enlarged 1941 F. Hufner.
Restored
1993-1995 by P.J. Elms & Co. New Pedal tracker action
manufactured by P.J. Elms & Co. to replace arson damaged parts at
the Paul Hufner factory in Bayswater.
Organ pitch restored to A=452 2010 by P. J. Elms & Co. |
| Dates of any moves that have taken place to current
organ |
Installed Wesley Uniting Church, Albany, 1894 by Mr Davis, Nicholsons',
Sydney.
Installed in present location in 1995 by P.J. Elms & Co. |
| Information on current organ |
Bob Elms writes:
There was a problem keeping the Stop Diapason in tune but then I
realized that the organ's original pitch of A=452 had never been
changed until it was restored for Lockyer Church when it ws tuned to
A440 and so the pipes were too short. Patrick retuned it slightly
higher in pitch which This solved the problem.. He also did some
readjustment of the pedal tracker action which was of his manufacture
incidentally. The original was burnt in Paul's arson attack. The
Kirkland also had the bellows repaired in May 1894 before it was
installed in Wesley Church. This was discovered when Patrick
releathered the bellows before installing it in Lockyer Church. Inside
the bellows was something written in a Scandinavian script and
the date Mai (sic) 1894. Unfortunately we could not find anyone who
could read this and translate it for us and it is again sealed inside
the regulator. I was told by one of our pioneer members that there was
a Swedish man here who did some work on the organ and that may have
been his work. I was told that there was damage to the organ on the sea
trip from Sydney. Must have had some really rough weather. This man may
have been given the job of fixing the damage to the bellows but that is
conjecture on our part. The pedal organ was obviously added later and
the name Collins is written on one of the pipes. A similar organ by the
same builder in Carcoa (S t Brigid's) has no pedal organ as such. It
has similar pipework but all stops on one manual.
The casework of this organ has the names of the pumpers scratched on it
with some well known names of church members of those days there for
all to see.
Pedal Bourdon and Great to Pedal coupler were added to the organ after it was built, possibly in Sydney. Draw
stop is not on the stop jambs but is under the keybed above the pedal clavier. |
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| Photographs |
Photograph of the church by Bruce Duncan |
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| Supporting information |
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| Document control |
Original entries J R Elms, OAM, Gazetteer of Western Australian Pipe Organs, 1971, 1999,2003 and 2004.
This entry D B Duncan 23 November 2008.
Updated with photo of church building 28 April 2009.
Additional information from Bob Elms 01 December 2010. |
