{"id":59,"date":"2010-12-12T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T07:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-12-14T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T08:09:57","slug":"st-andrews-anglican-church-south-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/projects\/st-andrews-anglican-church-south-brisbane","title":{"rendered":"News: St Andrew\u2019s Anglican Church South Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage of the restoration of the 1884 JW Walker organ in <strong>St<\/strong> <strong>Andrew&#8217;s Anglican Church South Brisbane <\/strong>has  been completed.\u00a0 The double-rise bellows have been completely  releathered and windtrunking refurbished. The bellows have been set to  their original wind pressure of 3\u00bd&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Swell and Great  Soundboards have been restored.\u00a0 They required over 150 screws each to  secure the splits in the mahogany tables.\u00a0 The 1960&#8217;s plastic slider  seals have been replaced with the more efficient felt seals.\u00a0 These  plastic seals had been faulty and were jamming the slides.<\/p>\n<p>Often the  pipes were not getting enough wind and were sounding out of tune and  woolly.\u00a0 The careful restoration of these soundboards are now receiving  their full requirement of wind.\u00a0 New lead conveyancing was made to wind  the showfront pipes. The pipework was carefully cleaned and the Dulciana  was restored back onto the Great soundboard and a new\u00a0 mahogany cheek  made for the 2&#8242; Fifteenth.\u00a0 This work has faithfully restored the  original Walker sound back to the organ.\u00a0 It is really sounding  magnificent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage of the restoration of the 1884 JW Walker organ in St Andrew&#8217;s Anglican Church South Brisbane has been completed.\u00a0 The double-rise bellows have been completely releathered and windtrunking refurbished. The bellows have been set to their original wind pressure of 3\u00bd&#8221;. Both the Swell and Great Soundboards<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/59"}],"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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}