Residence of Victor L. Worley "Runnymede"
Park Road, Bowral

1939-43 C.W. Leggo. 2m., 36 sp.st., 9c., tub.pn.

From SOJ April/May 1980:

This was Australia's largest house organ. Upon Worley's death in 1952, the instrument was broken up and sold off for parts. It was built by his friend Charles Leggo, being a copy of the instrument Leggo built for Worley when he was organist of All Saints' Anglican Church, Murwillumbah in 1926. Worley (from the UK) had settled there with his friend Frank Fellows. Together they opened several stationary and newsagency shops before moving to Bowral on medical advice, where they built a house with a large room for an organ in 1938. Worley commissioned Charles Leggo to build the organ but ordered the metal pipes from Rogers in Yorkshire. The specification gradually assumed a more generous and comprehensive stop list. Just before Worley's death, a Solo organ was to be added but this never came to be. Fellows sold the property and returned to the UK following Worley's death.

The specification was:

Great Double Open Diapason Bourdon Open Diapason No.1 Open Diapason No.2 Stopped Diapason Hohl Flute Dulciana Principal Wald Flute Twelfth Fifteenth Posaune Clarinet Swell Bourdon Geigen Lieblich Gedackt Gamba Vox Celeste Open Diapason Stopped Flute Gemshorn Nasard Flautina Contra Oboe Trumpet Vox Humana Cor Anglais Clarion Pedal Acoustic Bass Open Diapason Sub Bass Lieblich Bourdon Octave Bass Flute Oboe Trombone Couplers Swell Sub Octave Swell Super Octave Swell Unison Off Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Swell to Great Swell to Great Sub Octave Swell to Great Super Octave Great Super Octave Solo (proposed) Clarabella Violin Flute Harmonic Piccolo Clarinet Trumpet Super Octave coupler

16 16 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 2-2/3 2 8 8 16 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 2-2/3 2 16 8 8 8 8 32 16 16 16 8 8 16 16 8 8 4 2 8 8

bass grooved from St Diap. TC TC TC wood transferred from Great harmonic trebles

Tubular-pneumatic stop and key action
Balanced Swell Pedal
Attached stop key console

Compass 56/30