{"id":193,"date":"2010-12-17T17:36:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-12-17T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:36:42","slug":"st-johns-anglican-cathedral-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/projects\/st-johns-anglican-cathedral-brisbane","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"St John's Anglican Cathedral\" src=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/St-Johns-Anglican-Cathedral.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"214\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"The choir case in St John's Anglican Cathedral\" src=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/The-choir-case-in-St-Johns-Anglican-Cathedral.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The organ was originally built with pneumatic action in 1909 by  Norman and Beard of Norwich with the specification drawn up by the  cathedral organist, George Sampson. At that time it was designed to hold  50 speaking ranks although some were prepared for, and a few added in  1912, 1914, 1915 &amp; 1924.<\/p>\n<p>The 1924 transcept case was a gift of the Brisbane City Council in  commemoration of the centenary of white settlement in Queensland. \u00a0The  organ was considerably enlarged and electrified by Hill, Norman and  Beard (Aust.) in 1972, after the extension of the cathedral nave. Robert  Boughen was the consultant and cathedral organist.\u00a0Included at that  time were the Solo strings, which came from Gloucester Cathedral and  Southwell Minster.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Cathedral&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohnscathedral.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organ was originally built with pneumatic action in 1909 by Norman and Beard of Norwich with the specification drawn up by the cathedral organist, George Sampson. At that time it was designed to hold 50 speaking ranks although some were prepared for, and a few added in 1912, 1914,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}