ORGAN SALVAGE
St. Matthew’s, Masterton One of the things salvaged from St. Matthew’s Cliureh, Masterton, after last month’s earthquake, was the two manual organ, made bv Hobday, of Wellington, in 1912. Mr. 11. A. Tustin, the Wellington organ expert, who was in Masterton on the night of the earthquake, says that the only damage seemed to be the injury to the pipes that were thrown out of position and on to the floor by the violence of the disturbance. Some thirty of tlie zinc pipes were dented by the force of tlie impact. These will have to be reconditioned, work which could be done in tlie country. Mr. Tustin, w’ho attends to the niaintennnee of the grand organ in tlie Wellington Town Hall, said that no damage was done to the instrument itself l>y the earthquake. Two of tlie stays, however, which help to keep Hie big 32ft. pipes in position, were strained. It was fortunate they did not give way, as these pipes weigh three-quarters of a ton each, and had they fallen forward, would probably have crashed through the chair scats and platform.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 256, 28 July 1942, Page 4
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185ORGAN SALVAGE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 256, 28 July 1942, Page 4
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