{"id":65,"date":"2010-12-09T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T07:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-12-14T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T08:10:28","slug":"st-peters-anglican-church-southport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/projects\/st-peters-anglican-church-southport","title":{"rendered":"News: St Peter\u2019s Anglican Church, Southport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organ in <strong>St Peter&#8217;s Anglican Church, Southport<\/strong> is  now sounding spectacularly improved after recent maintenance and  revoicing.\u00a0 This organ has had a varied history with a major rebuilt by  Walter Emerson in 1976.\u00a0 Whilst only a small organ with 9 speaking stops  it was not adequate for the building.\u00a0 This was surprising as it had a  complete principal chorus with a mixture. Just because an organ is  small, does not mean that it can fill the building adequately if it  projects properly.<\/p>\n<p>This was our task. \u00a0\u00a0New polypel puffers were  installed throughout the organ and a new larger blower fitted. The  pipework was cleaned and revoiced at the new wind pressure of 4&#8243;.\u00a0 With  careful revoicing the sound is not forced but blooms in the body of the  church. When it was first played after the revoicing the whole  congregation noticed the difference.\u00a0 This organ now has a power and  beauty that it did not have before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organ in St Peter&#8217;s Anglican Church, Southport is now sounding spectacularly improved after recent maintenance and revoicing.\u00a0 This organ has had a varied history with a major rebuilt by Walter Emerson in 1976.\u00a0 Whilst only a small organ with 9 speaking stops it was not adequate for the building.\u00a0<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\/65"}],"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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercepipeorgans.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}