| Name of institution |
Western Australian Maritime Museum |
| Type of institution |
Museum |
| Street Address |
Cliff Street
|
| City |
Fremantle |
| State |
Western Australia |
| Postcode |
6160
|
| Country |
Australia |
| Name of building |
Western Australian Maritime Museum |
| Name of room |
The Shipwreck Gallery |
| Dates of the building |
|
| Architect’s and builder’s names |
|
| Special architectural features |
|
| Special fittings |
|
| Other location information |
The Maritime Museum in Cliff Street, Fremantle, has been renamed the Western Australian Maritime Museum Shipwreck Galleries.
The Shipwreck Galleries are recognised as the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere.
The displays in the restored convict-built Commissariat building
feature early exploration and shipwrecks along the treacherous
coastline as early as the 17th Century, including original timbers from
the Dutch VOC ship the Batavia, wrecked in 1629. |
| Name of contact |
|
| Mailing Address |
|
| Telephone |
08 9431 8444 |
| Email |
|
| Other contact information |
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime/ |
| . |
|
| Date of previous organs |
None |
| Detail of previous organs |
|
| Dates when key work has been undertaken |
|
| Dates of any moves that have taken place |
|
| Variations from original design of organ |
|
| Information on previous organs |
|
| Information about comparable instruments to previous
organs |
|
| . |
|
| Present organ |
|
| Type of installation |
|
| Case description |
|
| Placement in room |
|
| Builder's name |
Wurlitzer Company, North Tonawanda, N.Y., U.S.A |
| Opus number |
|
| Date of completion/installation |
1892 |
| Construction materials |
|
| Number of manuals |
|
| Key compasses |
|
| Number of keys |
|
| Key material |
|
| Pedal compass |
|
| Number of pedals |
|
| Pedalboard type |
|
| Pedalboard material |
|
| Type of chests |
|
| Type of key action |
|
| Type of stop action |
|
| Couplers |
|
| Tremulants |
|
| Accessories |
|
| Console type |
|
| Stop label material |
|
| Placement |
|
| General design |
|
| Playing aids |
|
| Divisions |
|
| Wind pressures |
|
| Stop list |
|
| Total number of stops |
|
| Total number of ranks |
4 ranks, operable by barrels.
|
| Total number of pipes |
|
| Dates when key work has been undertaken on current
organ |
|
| Dates of any moves that have taken place to current
organ |
|
| Information on current organ |
Used on a merry-go-round on the Fremantle foreshore operated by Percy
Wright.
Presented to Museum by D.G. Miller, Mount Claremont. |
| Comparable instruments to current
organ |
|
| Current status |
|
| Assessment of organ |
|
| Other organs by this builder |
|
| Photographs |
Photograph of building from Wickipedia
|
| Technical documents |
|
| General documents |
|
| . |
|
| Supporting information |
|
| . |
|
| 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 January 2009.
|
