St Giles' Presbyterian Church

B. c.1930 Wurlitzer Co., Tonawanda, N.Y. (for Strand Theatre, Hobart?)
Reb. & inst. 1954 in present church Hill, Norman & Beard
(new console & 3 rk mixture supplied) (o/n 14344). 2m., 20 sp.st. (some extension), 5c., el.pn.
Gt: 16.8.8.4.4.2.8. Sw: 8.8.8.4.2-2/3.2.III.8. Ped: 16.8.8.5-1/3.4.

[Photo: Mark Quarmby (June 2019)]

Photos above: Rodney Ford (November 2017)

From The Sydney Organ Journal (Winter 2013):

A Little-known Sydney Wurlitzer

Rod Blackmore

I am grateful to Ron Mapstone, organist at St. Giles' for the contemporary information.

Wurlitzer organ (opus #157) was the third substantive organ of that make to be imported to Australia. There had been a few Wurlitzer "Photoplayer" organs with a couple of pipe ranks, a range of tonal and non-tonal percussions, and roll players (but without pedal boards), as well as similar Robert Morton "Fotoplayers". These were mostly played with their roll players to accompany silent movies. Opus 157, however, with two manuals and a full pedal board, (as well as roll players and percussions), had six pipe ranks: Flute-Bourdon, Flute [Tibia], Salicional, Vox Humana, Trumpet and Viol Celeste. The console had the appearance of a player-piano with a straight stop rail.

The stoplist is:

Great	Swell	Pedal
16' Contra Viola 8' Open Diapason 8' Flute 8' Gedeckt 4' Octave 4' Flute 2' Super Octave III Mixture 8' Trumpet Chimes Swell to Great Auto Bass	8' Gedackt 8' Salicional 8' Voix Celeste 4' Nason Flute 4' Salicet 2-2/3' Nazard 2' Piccolo III Mixture 8' Trumpet 8' Oboe Chimes Sub Octave Octave Tremulant	32' Contra Diapason 16' Major Bass 16' Bourdon 8' Principal 8' Flute 5-1/3' Quint 4' Octave Flute Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal