{"id":318,"date":"2010-12-18T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/?p=318"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:30:42","slug":"surface-hill-uniting-church-gympie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/projects\/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\/surfhillunit11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"surfhillunit1\" src=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/surfhillunit11.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":319,"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\/318"}],"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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}