| Name of institution |
Free Reformed Church |
| Type of institution |
Church |
| Street Address |
291 Lancaster Road, McKail
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| City |
West Albany |
| State |
Western Australia |
| Postcode |
6330 |
| Country |
Australia |
| Name of building |
Free Reformed 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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| Present organ |
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| Type of installation |
Purpose built rear gallery |
| Case description |
Fine case displaying 29 flue pipes in classic array. |
| Placement in room |
A gallery was erected at the rear of the church for the organ. |
| Builder's name |
Frederick Taylor |
| Opus number |
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| Date of completion/installation |
1913 |
| 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 |
30 |
| Pedalboard type |
Concave, radiating |
| Pedalboard material |
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| Type of chests |
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| Type of key action |
Electro-pneumatic |
| Type of stop action |
Electro-pneumatic |
| Couplers |
| Swell sub octave |
Swell sub octave to Great |
| Swell unison off |
Swell octave to Great |
| Swell octave |
Great to
Pedal |
| Swell to Great |
Swell to Pedal |
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Great to Pedal Combinations Coupled |
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Swell to Pedal Combinations |
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| Tremulants |
Swell |
| Accessories |
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| Console type |
Detached, free standing, located in a niche 20 metres from the organ gallery. |
| Stop label material |
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| Placement |
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| General design |
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| Playing aids |
Balance Swell pedal
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| Divisions |
Great, Swell, Pedal
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| Wind pressures |
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| Stop list |
| GREAT |
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| Bourdon |
16' |
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B |
| Open Diapason |
8' |
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| Claribel |
8' |
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| Dulciana |
8' |
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| Principal |
4' |
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| Twelfth |
2-2/3' |
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| Fifteenth |
2' |
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| Larigot |
1-1/3' |
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| Mixture 17 19 22 |
III |
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| Trumpet |
8'
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| SWELL |
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| Open Diapason |
8' |
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| Hohl Flute |
8' |
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| Salicional |
8' |
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| Voix
Celeste |
8' |
TC |
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| Gemshorn |
4' |
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| Flute |
4' |
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| Doublette |
2' |
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| Mixture |
III
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| Oboe |
8' |
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| PEDAL |
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| Open Diapason |
16' |
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| Bourdon |
16' |
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B |
| Principal |
8' |
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| Flute |
8' |
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| Super Octave |
4' |
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| Octave
Flute |
4' |
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| Trombone |
16' |
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A |
| Trumpet |
8' |
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| Total number of speaking stops |
25 |
| Total number of ranks |
28 |
| Total number of pipes |
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| Dates when key work has been undertaken on current
organ |
Built in 1913 by Fred Taylor for Methodist Church, Mount Gambier, South Australia.
Rebuilt 1966 Hill Norman & Beard (o/n S698). The organ was electrified and extended at that time. A mutation was added
to the Great, and a 3-rank shrill Mixture to the
Swell, and there was considerable borrowing to produce what looked like a comprehensive Pedal division.
Installed in private residence of Bruce Lindsay at Lenswood, Adelaide
Hills, South Australia, in 1994. Mr Lindsay acquired the organ
from the Uniting Church in Mount Gambier when the combined
congregations resolved to centre their activities on St Andrews Presbyterian Church, and to sell off the
ex-Wesley Methodist Church where the organ resided.
Revoiced & enlarged in 1996 George
Stephens.
After installing in Lenswood (a converted
Anglican Church), George Stevens dismantled all the
pipework and revoiced it as a whole. At the same time he remove the nicking from the 8'
flute on the Great, which produced a truly lovely
rank, to replace the Swell Mixture with something less shrill, to install an entirely new 17 19 22 Mixture for
the Great (built by Roger Jones), and to install a 16'
Trombone, the bottom octave for which was made by APO in Melbourne. George
used the existing wiring to borrow from the lovely 8' Great
Trumpet to provide the upper octaves for what became the 16' Pedal Trombone.
A new Discus blower was later installed.
Installed Australian Luther Seminary, North Adelaide, South Australia, 1998, by Bruce Lindsay.
Removed by Jake Maring for relocation to West Albany Free Reformed Church August 2009.
Tuning and regulation by Pipe Organs WA Pty Ltd in June 2011.
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| Dates of any moves that have taken place to current
organ |
1994 to residence Bruce Lindsay, Lenswood..
1998 to Australian Luther Seminary, North Adelaide.
2009 to Albany West Free Reformed Church, Albany. |
| Information on current organ |
The organ utilises high quality Palmer (England) pipework throughout. |
| Comparable instruments to current
organ |
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| Current status |
The instrument has an
excellent sound and is in very good working condition. |
| Assessment of organ |
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| Other organs by this builder |
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| Photographs |
Photographs of the organ at Albany West by Jake Maring
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| Technical documents |
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| Supporting information |
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| Document control |
Original entries Rev. B Naylor, Gazetteer of South Australian Pipe Organs, 1974, revised by David Shield.
Historical background from Bruce Lindsay 17 April 2009.
Information about relocation from Jake Maring 24 August 2009.
This entry D B Duncan 24 August 2009.
New photographs by Jake Maring 22 May 2011.
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