Seventh Day Adventist & Multicultural Church
(formerly Memorial Uniting and originally Congregational)
Brisbane Stree, Hobart
B. 1879 George Fincham; reb. 1936 & enl. 1939 Geo. Fincham & Sons (addition of choir organ).
Reb. 1992 Gibbs & Thomson. 3m., 24 sp.st., 6c., el.pn.
Gt: 8.8.8.4.4.2-2/3.2.III.8. Sw: 16.8.8.8.4.2.2.8. Ch: 8.4.4.2.8. Ped: 16.16.




Photos: Trevor Bunning (Dec 2008)



From the 1992 OHTA Conference Book:

This distinctive stone church, in High Victorian Gothic style with French overtones, was built in 1870 - 72 to the design of the local architect Francis Butler for the Congregational denomination [1].

The organ was built in 1879 by George Fincham as a two-manual instrument of 18 stops. In 1936 it was rebuilt with tubular-pneumatic action and detached console by George Fincham & Sons who added a Choir Organ of five stops in 1939 [2].  The Clarinet stop came from St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne [3].  The instrument has recently been rebuilt by Gibbs & Thomson, of Hobart. The action has been electrified and a new console installed within the organ case.  Several tonal changes have been made, but the majority of the original pipework survives.



The 2000 specification is:

Great
Open Diapason
Claribella
Dulciana
Principal
Open Flute
Twelfth
Fifteenth
Mixture
Trumpet

Swell
Lieblich Bourdon
Open Diapason
Stopped Diapason
Keraulophon
Principal
Fifteenth
Recorder
Oboe
Tremulant

Choir
Chimney Flute
Principal
Nason Flute
Block Flute
Cremona
Tremulant

Pedal
Open Diapason
Bourdon

8
8
8
4
4
2-2/3
2
III
8


16
8
8
8
4
2
2
8



8
4
4
2
8



16
16







19.22.26.(remade J.W. Walker 1981)






TC (tuned as a Celeste)


new




(ex Wald Flute 4)
(ex Open Diapason 8 + 12 pipes)
(ex Lieblich Gedact 8)
(ex Swell Celeste + 19 pipes)
(ex Clarinet)


7 couplers


action: electro-pneumatic


[1] Priceless heritage, pp. 123, 130

[2] Matthews, op.cit., pp. 198, 209

[3] Clark & Johnson, op. cit., p. 38

[4] Spec. supplied 1992 the Revd Michael Johnson, from opening recital programme.

 

This church now has a sign out front indicating that since 2006 it is Seventh Day Adventist and Multicultural.




Photo: Clarke and Johnson's Pipe Organs of Tasmania (3rd ed.), pub Hobart Guild of Organists 2002