{"id":269,"date":"2010-12-18T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au"},"modified":"2010-12-20T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T05:38:07","slug":"surface-hill-uniting-church-gympie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/organ-restoration\/north-qld\/surface-hill-uniting-church-gympie","title":{"rendered":"Surface Hill Uniting Church, Gympie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/surfhillunit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-270\" title=\"surfhillunit1\" src=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/surfhillunit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>This  organ was built by George Benson for the home of James Lord, who was  organist at Wesley Methodist Church, Brisbane. \u00a0At the same time, Benson  also built the large 3-manual instument for that church. \u00a0After the  death of Lord&#8217;s wife and only son in the sinking of the S.S. Quetta, the  house organ was offered for sale and installed in its present site some  time in 1890.<\/p>\n<p>The  organ was restored by Simon in 1989. It was in a very tired state. It  used to cypher with any change of weather and the the tuning was  erratic. It required a simple and careful restoration. The result  brought the organ alive again. This is a delightful organ whose small  belies the volume and tone that it produces. The specification is  versatile and the action responsive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifications:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>GREAT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PEDAL <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open Diapason\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a016&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bourdon<br \/>\n8&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salicional<br \/>\n4&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Principal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Swell to Great<br \/>\n4&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wald Flute\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great to Pedal<\/p>\n<p>Swell to Pedal<br \/>\n<strong>SWELL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open Diapason<br \/>\n8&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lieblich Gedact<br \/>\n4&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gemshorn<br \/>\n8&#8242;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oboe<\/p>\n<p>Tremulant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This organ was built by George Benson for the home of James Lord, who was organist at Wesley Methodist Church, Brisbane. \u00a0At the same time, Benson also built the large 3-manual instument for that church. \u00a0After the death of Lord&#8217;s wife and only son in the sinking of the S.S.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270,"parent":370,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/382"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}