"Abercrombie House"
Bathurst

J.J. Binns c. 1910 2m., 12 sp.st., tr. and pn to pedals

From OHTA News July 2000:

A redundant organ has been obtained by Peter Jewkes from All Hallows', Milton, Staffordshire, UK. The organ has two manuals and 12 speaking stops by the noted Yorkshire builder, J.J. Binns. It is to be restored and installed at "Abercrombie House", Bathurst, the country seat of Rex Morgan, Esq., where his Pittwater House Schools holds retreats and functions. The case is very handsome, of oak, and the console is quite "advanced" for its 90 years, with angled stop jambs, beautiful thick ivory key coverings, concave and radiating pedalboard and balanced swell pedal (all original). This will be the first Binns organ to come to Australia, although it is interesting to note that the Adelaide organbuilder W.L. Roberts was apprenticed to this firm.

The specification is:

Great Open Diapason Rohr Flute Dulciana Principal Harmonic Flute Swell Geigen Principal Lieblich Gedact Viol d'Orchestre Vox Angelica Suabe Flute Pedal Bourdon Bass Flute Couplers Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal

8 8 8 4 4 8 8 8 8 4 16 8

2 compositional pedals to Sw & Gt.
Compass 58/30

Tracker action to manuals, pneumatic to Pedal