ST JOHN’S CHURCH.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 141, 14 November 1874, Page 2

ST JOHN’S CHURCH.

The organ at the above church is now undergoing extensive alterations and additions, and until these are completed it is intended to use a harmonium for the services. The organ (by Kolditch, of London) in its present state is small, but when the additions are completed it will be one of the largest in the colony. It is to be placed in the stone chamber in course of erection on the south side of the chancel, and which will be shortly ready for its reception. The following is the projected synopsis . Great Organ (Compass CC to f 3). 1. Bourdon, 16ft (tone), 54 pipes. 2. Open diapason, Bft, 51 pipes. 3. Stopped diapason 1 (bass) V Bft, 54 pipes. 4. Clarabella (tenor C) ) 5. Garaba, do, Bft (tone), 42 pipes. 6. Principal, 4ft, 54 pipes. 7. Flute, 4ft 8. Twelfth, 3ft, 54 pipes. 9. Fifteenth, 2ft, 54 pipes, 10. Sesquialtera (3 ranks), 162 pipes. 11. Clarionet (tenor C), Bft (tone), 42 pipes. Swell Organ (compass CC to f 3). 1. Open diapason, Bft, 54 pipes. 2. Stopped do, Bft, 54 pipes. 3. Dulciana, Bft, 54 pipes. 4. Vox Angelica (to tenor C tuned in conjunction with No 3). Bft (tone), 42 pipes. 5. Wald flute, 4ft Hone), 54 pipes. 6. Principal, 4ft, 54 pipes. 7. Fifteenth, 2ft, 54 pipes. 8. Oboie, Bft, 54 pipes. 9. Clarion, 4ft, 54 pipes. Pedal Organ (compass CCC to d). 1. Open diapason, 16ft, 27 pipes. 2. Stopped do, 16ft (tone), 27 pipes. Couplers. 1. Swell to great (unison). 2. Swell to pedals (Bft). 2. Great to pedals (Bft). Foot tremulant to swell organ. Recapitulation. Great organ, 11 registers, 624 pipes. Swell do, 9 do, 474 do. Pedal do, 2 do, 54 do. Couplers, 3 do. Totals, 25 registers, 1152 pipes. Mr Neville Barnett, Fellow of the College of Organists, London, who recently arrived by the ship Duke of Edinburgh, has provisionally received the appointment of choirmaster and organist to the church, pending a reply to instructions forwarded to England relative to this appointment.