Morningside Uniting Church
[Photograph by Howard Baker (1990s)]
Morningside Uniting Church
[Photograph by Howard Baker (1990s)]
Historical and Technical Documentation by Geoffrey Cox
© OHTA 2011, 2013 (last updated May 2013)
The organ in this church was completed in June 1947 by Whitehouse Bros of Brisbane at a cost of £1,102.0.0, to a specification that had been drawn up in May 1944.1 The instrument was donated by Mrs F.E. White and Miss J.E. White and dedicated to the memory of Robert G. White, who died in 1943.2 It was dedicated on Sunday 22 June 1947.3
[Photographs by Howard Baker (1990s)]
This was one of the highly standardised pneumatic-action organs built by the firm from the early 1910s onwards, using cone-pallet chests and featuring 'inclined-block' type stop tabs placed in a row above the upper manual. The specification is identical with that of the organs for Methodist Church, Lutwyche (1949) and the Methodist Church, Chermside (1950), and one stop smaller than at the Toowoomba Preparatory School (1949). The duplexing of the Swell string stop on the Great Organ was a common feature on these instruments from the early 1930s onwards, and later instruments such as this at Morningside used the same name (Salicional) for both stops.
[Photograph by Howard Baker (1990s)]
| GREAT Open Diapason Salicional Flute SWELL Violin Diapason Gedact Salicional Principal PEDAL Bourdon COUPLERS Swell to Great Swell to Pedals Great to Pedals Swell to Great Super |
8 8 4 8 8 8 4 16 |
A A |
Tremulant (general)
Attached stop-key console
Balanced swell pedal (brass shoe)
Tubular-pneumatic action
Compass: 61/30.4
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1 Whitehouse Bros Ledger (1940-1954), p. 318.
2 Personal communication to G. Cox from Miss J.E. White, February 1974.
3 The Courier-Mail (14 June 1947), p. 5.
4 Specification noted by G. Cox, August 1974.