Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School: Performing Arts Centre – interior
(photograph from Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School)
Historical and Technical Documentation by John Maidment
© OHTA (last updated January 2025)
Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School: Performing Arts Centre – interior
(photograph from Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School)
Historical and Technical Documentation by John Maidment
© OHTA (last updated January 2025)
Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School is a leading private school in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It was founded in 1903 and adopted its present name in 1923. The Performing Arts Centre was completed in 1995 and was designed by architect Brian Dowling. It provides excellent facilities for musical performance and theatre.
Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School: Performing Arts Centre – organ case
[Photograph by Andrew Lecky (December 1998)]
The organ was completed late in 1998 by Knud Smenge in consultation with Douglas Lawrence AM. It is placed on a gallery behind the platform and has an unusual case, in jarrah, with tin façade pipes, which incorporates a central curved pediment and curved side brackets supporting the impost. The swell shutters are exposed. The tonal design seeks to produce a maximum variety of sounds from a small number of stops.
| MANUAL I Principal Rohrflute Octave Mixture Trompete Tremulant II to I |
8 8 4 IV 8 |
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| MANUAL II (enclosed) Gedackt Salicional Rohrflute Nazard Principal Krummhorn Tremulant |
8 8 4 2-2/3 2 8 |
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| PEDAL Subbass Fagott I to Pedal II to Pedal II Octave to Pedal |
16 16 |
Compass: 58/30
Mechanical key and stop action
Balanced swell pedal
Attached drawstop console1
1 OHTA News, vol 23, no 1, January 1999, p.18