Lyndoch
B 1986 & completed 2000, Roger Jones.
1m, 5spst, 1c, tr.
Man: 8.8.4.4.2. Ped: (electronic 16.)
From
the 2009 OHTA Conference Book,
David Shield writes:
At
the Diocesan Synod of 1860, in the Bishop’s report on the General State of the
Church, it was noted that liturgical services were statedly held by clergymen
or lay readers at nine townships including Lyndoch Valley.1 In fact, one acre of land had been set
aside as a gift for the Church of England from the South Australia Company’s
survey of the district in 1839. A
flood necessitated the choice of a different site after building had reached
window height so services were conducted in various places until the church was
consecrated on 3 August 1861.
Built on the Glebe to the north of the town, ironstone had been quarried
nearby, with slate for the roof, tiles for the floor and glass for the windows
being imported from Britain.2
The
organ was first constructed in 1985.
Impressed by the Krüger organ at Stockwell and its subsequent
restoration, Roger Jones determined to emulate it. Never intended as a faithful copy it was based on Krüger’s
aims and methods.3 It
remained unsold for a number of years.
It was installed in Holy Trinity as a benefaction from the Burge family
in 2000. By this time, the Bourdon
pipes had been removed and gone elsewhere. Rather than build new pipes, Jones commissioned an
electronic bass to be fitted to the existing bass windchest. The casework is painted and consists of
three flats, the central one having an embossed pipe at its centre. The whole is capped by cornices and
there are carved pipeshades.
As
an aside, it is interesting to note that Miss Amy Burge was organist in
1918. She was presented with a
silver teapot on her approaching marriage. In her place Miss Eleanor Springbett was appointed.4
More recently, some of the metal pipework was
replaced with new pipework, manufactured by Roger Jones, modelled upon the
practices of the Schulze firm, with wide 2/7 mouths and bold scaling.5
Roger Jones 1986: completed 2000
1 manual, 6 speaking stops, mechanical action
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Principal |
8 |
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Gedackt |
8 |
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Octave |
4 |
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Flute |
4 |
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Superoctave |
2 |
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PEDAL |
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Sub Bass |
16 |
(electronic) |
Compass: 56/30
Pedal pulldowns
Attached drawstop console
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1 South Australian
Advertiser, 9 May, 1860, p.3
2 Church Chronicle, vol 1, no.3 (12 November 1859); also in Teusner,
R. & M., Churches of the Barossa Valley (1971), pp.6-7
3 Lutz, M., ‘The New Krüger Organ’, OHTA
News, vol 11, no 1 (January 1987),
p.18;
Lutz, M., ‘History Relived’, Victorian
Organ Journal (April 1987), pp.5-8
4 Register, 9 November 1918, p. 10.7 – ‘Religious
Notices’
5 ‘News from organ builders’, OHTA News, vol 24, no 2 (April
2000), p.15
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Photos: Trevor Bunning (Oct 2009)