{"id":52,"date":"2010-12-14T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T07:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:47:47","slug":"brisbane-city-hall-pipe-organ-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/news\/brisbane-city-hall-pipe-organ-restoration","title":{"rendered":"News: Brisbane City Hall Pipe Organ Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53\" title=\"brisbane-city-hall-pipes-storage\" src=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/brisbane-city-hall-pipes-storage-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/brisbane-city-hall-pipes-storage-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/brisbane-city-hall-pipes-storage.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The main news of 2010 has been the dismantling and storage of the of  the 5-manual Brisbane City Hall Willis pipe organ. The City Hall is in  need of some much needed restoration and it was decided to remove all of  the organ to protect it while the auditorium and organ chamber are  being refurbished. It is a monumental task to completely dismantle an  organ this size but we were able to achieve this in only six weeks. It  is now neatly stored in a Council property at Tingalpa.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, restorations leave the main standframes, casework and even  some of the larger pipes in position. In this case all the large  woodwork of the frames and the casework had to be carefully marked and  dismantled.\u00a0 This required a large amount of manpower and some heavy  lifting.\u00a0 Even the removal of the 32&#8242; pipes from the showfront required a  great deal of planning.\u00a0 The organ is now carefully laid out in the  storage area with all the smaller pipes in labelled crates and the  larger pipes standing in racking.\u00a0 The large 32&#8242; pipes can be carefully  laid out on the floor.\u00a0 Even the bellows have been fitted with small  wheels to make them easily movable.\u00a0 The soundboards and action parts  are all stored in air conditioned rooms to keep them in first class  condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main news of 2010 has been the dismantling and storage of the of the 5-manual Brisbane City Hall Willis pipe organ. The City Hall is in need of some much needed restoration and it was decided to remove all of the organ to protect it while the auditorium and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}