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Sorrento (Victoria), Australia (Victoria) - Anglican of Saint John
Municipal: Sorrento (Victoria)
Region:Mornington Peninsula
Address: 3460 Point Nepean Road, 3943, Sorrento, Victoria
Website: https://srac.org.au/
Description nr.: 2064656.
Built by: Nicholas Thomas Pearce (1908)
Short list of all locations the organ has been
Technical data
Specification
Great Organ (C-c''''): Open Diapason 8', Hohl Flute 8', Dulciana 8', Octave 4' - 1980.
Swell Organ (C-c''''): Stopped Diapason & Clarabella 8', Echo Gamba 8' (from c°), Harmonic Flute 4', Oboe 8'.
Pedal Organ (C-f'): Lieblich Bourdon 16'.
Couplers: Swell to Great, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal, Swell Octave.
Accessories: 2 Composition Pedals to Great.
Sorrento (Victoria), Australia (Victoria) - Anglican of Saint John
Municipal: Sorrento (Victoria)
Region:Mornington Peninsula
Address: 3460 Point Nepean Road, 3943, Sorrento, Victoria
Website: https://srac.org.au/
Description nr.: 2064656.
Built by: Nicholas Thomas Pearce (1908)
| Year | Builder | Opus | Activity | 1908 | Nicholas Thomas Pearce | new organ | 1980 | South Island Organ Company | restoration and enlargement | 2010 | South Island Organ Company | maintenance/reparations | 2019 | Hargraves Pipe Organs Ltd. | transfer/relocate |
- Nicholas Thomas Pearce built a two-manual organ with nine stops for the Methodist Church in Woolston, New Zealand, in 1908. Parts of the material used were manufactured at the workplace of Gray & Davison in London. On July 30, 1908, the instrument was inaugurated.
- The organ was restored by the South Island Organ Company in 1980. The moved the Harmonic Flute 4' of Great to the Swell, on a clamp at the rear of the organ. A new Octave 4' was added to Great.
- In 1981, the organ was transfered to the Cathedral Grammar School Chapel in Christchurch by Bernard Bicknell. When this buildind had to be demolished after the earthquake on September 3, 2010. The organ was taken in to storage. After a renovation it has been installed in Sorrento in 2019 by Hargraves Pipe Organs.
Short list of all locations the organ has been
| 1908 | Woolston | Methodist Church |
| 1981 | Christchurch | Cathedral Grammar School Chapel |
| 2019 | Sorrento (Victoria) | Anglican of Saint John |
Technical data
| Number of stops per division | |
| - Great Organ | 4 |
| - Swell Organ | 4 |
| - Pedal Organ | 1 |
| Total number of stops | 9 |
| Key action | Mechanical |
| Stop action | Mechanical |
| Windchest(s) | Slider chests |
Specification
Great Organ (C-c''''): Open Diapason 8', Hohl Flute 8', Dulciana 8', Octave 4' - 1980.
Swell Organ (C-c''''): Stopped Diapason & Clarabella 8', Echo Gamba 8' (from c°), Harmonic Flute 4', Oboe 8'.
Pedal Organ (C-f'): Lieblich Bourdon 16'.
Couplers: Swell to Great, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal, Swell Octave.
Accessories: 2 Composition Pedals to Great.
| Literature |
Restoration rebuilding reconstruction : 42nd Annual Conference Organ Historical Trust of Australia : 30 September - 4 October 2019 : Adelaide and Tanunda South Australia : Conference Book. - Camberwell Victoria : OHTA, 2019. - Advertorial. |
| Links |
https://www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/Sorrento.html |