{"id":209,"date":"2010-12-17T17:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-12-17T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:44:21","slug":"st-andrews-anglican-church-south-brisbane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/projects\/st-andrews-anglican-church-south-brisbane-2","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrew&#8217;s Anglican Church, South Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This organ was originally installed at the eastern end of the church  on a gallery in 1885, having been sent from J.W. Walker&#8217;s and Sons  workshops off Tottenham Court Road, London, the preceding year. It was  then supplied with two manuals and a single pedal stop, with tracker  action throughout.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1930&#8217;s the straight pedal board was replaced by a radiating  concave one, following the practice of the recently installed Brisbane  City Hall instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Later the organ was shifted to the northern transept, closer to the altar at the western end of the building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/the-show-front.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-210\" title=\"the show front\" src=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/the-show-front.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/the-show-front.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/the-show-front-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>More significant change came in the 1950&#8217;s when Charles Dirksen  enlarged the Pedal department, placing the pipework in the opposite  transept, using an electric action.<\/p>\n<p>This was not completely satisfactory, as some of the upper notes were too prominent!<\/p>\n<p>The pedal pipes were brought back to the organ case proper during the  extension of the intrument to three manuals by Laurie Pipe Organs of  Melbourne at which time the original tracker manual action was replaced  by electric as well. The new choir pipes were accommodated in the  opposite (southern or liturgical North) transept.<\/p>\n<p>The organ is currently under appraisal for a restoration of the  original tracker action, bringing the departments back to the original  design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This organ was originally installed at the eastern end of the church on a gallery in 1885, having been sent from J.W. Walker&#8217;s and Sons workshops off Tottenham Court Road, London, the preceding year. It was then supplied with two manuals and a single pedal stop, with tracker action throughout.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210,"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\/209"}],"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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}