Canberra Girls' Grammar School
Chapel of the Annunciation
Melbourne Avenue, Deakin, ACT

Knud Smenge, Melbourne, 1989
2 manuals, 12 speaking stops, 3 couplers, mechanical action



Chapel of the Annunciation, Canberra Girls' Grammar School
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (May 2019)]

Historical and Technical Documentation by Kelvin Hastie
© OHTA 2001, 2019 (last updated May 2019)




The school was established in 1926 by the Sisters of the Church (an Anglican order of nuns) in the old St John's rectory at Glebe Park. This building was demolished to make way for the extension of Ballumbir Street to Coranderrk Street - a memorial seat commemorates the spot near the Lutheran Church.

The school was established on this site at Deakin in 1927. When a new gymnasium was completed in 1988, the existing gymnasium complex was 'recycled' to become the Chapel of the Annunciation. An organ was commissioned from Knud Smenge (Melbourne) and was installed on the gallery in 1989. It is a free-standing instrument.





Chapel of the Annunciation, interior
[Photographs by Trevor Bunning (May 2019)]




The 1989 Smenge organ
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (May 2019)]

An organ was commissioned from Knud Smenge (Melbourne) and was installed on the gallery in 1989.1 It is a free-standing instrument.



Knud Smenge at the console
[Photograph by Trevor Bunning (1989)]












Console details of the Smenge organ
[Photographs by Trevor Bunning (May 2019)]


The specification is:

Great
Rohrflöte
Principal
Waldflöte
Mixture

Swell
Gedackt
Koppelflöte
Principal
Nasat
Krumhorn

Pedal
Subbass
Gedackt
Koralbas

8
4
2
III-IV


8
4
2
1-1/3
8


16
8
4
















Couplers
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell Octave to Pedal
Swell to Great

Tremulant
Mechanical action
4 composition pedals
Swell is positioned as a Brustwerk division
Compass 56/30.2

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1 For Smenge's opus list, see: John Maidment, List of organs built by Knud Smenge Pty Ltd

2 Information provided by Geoff Wells, February 2001, and from photographs by Trevor Bunning, May 2019.