St Mary's Catholic Church
cnr. Church & Market Streets, Mudgee
1866 J.W. Walker, 1m., 7 sp. st., pedal pulldowns, 1c., tr
From 1990 OHTA Conference booklet:
The organ in this church was built in 1866 by J.W. Walker of London (job no. 822) for St Jude's Anglican Church, Randwick - it consisted of a single manual and 7 stops. In 1904 Charles Richardson used the pipes to form the basis of a new 2-manual organ for the Randwick church. The remains of the Walker were then transferred to St Mary's, Mudgee, where Charles Richardson supplied a new set of pipes to the old specification. This work occured in 1907. At the same time Richardson decorated the display pipes in his typical style, and other alterations include the fitting of a new keyboard, the addition of a tremulant and the removal of the hand-blowing apparatus.
The specification is:
Manual
Bourdon Bass
Double Diapason
Open Diapason
Clarabella
Dulciana
Principal
Flute
Hautboy
Octave Coupler
16
16
8
8
8
4
4
8
1 octave
Pedal Pulldowns: 25 notes
Compass: 54 notes (plus an extra top octave for the Octave Coupler)
Mechanical action throughout
Photos: Trevor Bunning 1990
Photo: Simon Colvin April 2010