Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ropeley
[Photograph by David Vann (June 2012)]
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ropeley
[Photograph by David Vann (June 2012)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by Geoffrey Cox
© OHTA 2012 (last updated June 2012)
Ropeley is situated in the Lockyer Valley, some 80km west-southwest of Brisbane in the Shire of Gatton. The area was settled by German farmers in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This Lutheran congregation at Ropeley dates from 1886, and the present wooden church was opened in 1923.1
Interior of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ropeley
[Photograph by David Vann (June 2012)]
The organ was built in 1971 by H.W. Jarrott of Brisbane, apparently trading at the time
under the name 'Organ Services, Brisbane,' as the builder's plate records. The entire pipework of this instrument in enclosed in the swell box, and the façade pipes are non-speaking.
The 1971 Jarrott organ
at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ropeley
[Photographs by David Vann (2005 & June 2012)]
The specification is almost identical with that of Jarrott's much earlier organ at the Baptist Church, Taringa, which used electro-pneumatic action.
| MANUAL Dulciana Lieblich Gedackt Principal COUPLERS Swell Sub Swell Super |
8 8 4 |
Attached stop-key console
Compass: 61 notes
Balanced swell pedal
No pedals
Direct electric action.2
Console and builder's plate of the 1971 Jarrott organ
at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ropeley
[Photographs by David Vann (June 2012)]
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1 [Clem C Zanker], Immanuel Lutheran Church Ropeley: 60th anniversary of Immanuel Church, February 6, 1983 [Ropeley: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1983].
2 Specification noted by G. Cox, 1974.