| Name of institution |
Residence of Geoffrey Revell |
| Type of institution |
Private residence |
| Street Address |
Canning Road |
| City |
Kalamunda |
| State |
Western Australia |
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| Country |
Australia |
| Name of building |
Residence of Geoffrey Revell |
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| Date of previous organs |
None |
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| Present organ |
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| Type of installation |
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| Case description |
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| Builder's name |
Bellsham Pipe Organs (Australia) |
| Opus number |
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| Date of completion/installation |
1987 |
| Construction materials |
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| Number of manuals |
Two (2) |
| Key compasses |
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| Number of keys |
56 |
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| Pedal compass |
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| Number of pedals |
30 |
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| Type of chests |
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| Type of key action |
Mechanical |
| Type of stop action |
Mechanical |
| Couplers |
(hitch-down) Manual II to Manual I, Manual I to Pedal, Manual II to Pedal
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| Tremulants |
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| Accessories |
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| Console type |
Integral lever stops
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| Divisions |
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| Stop list |
| MANUAL I & II |
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Quintade
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8' |
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| Gedackt |
8' |
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| Spitzflöte |
4' |
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| Principal |
2' |
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| Larigot |
1 1/3' |
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| PEDAL |
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| Sordun |
16' |
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| Total number of stops |
6 (stops duplexed by way of three-way levers) |
| Total number of ranks |
6 |
| Total number of pipes |
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| Dates when key work has been undertaken on current
organ |
Built for residence of Geoffrey Revell (principal of Bellsham Pipe Organs), Kalamunda.
Removed to storage on sale of property.
Installed at the
residence of Steve and Louise Blatchford in Pymble, Sydney.
Believed to have been purchased by St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral,
Sydney, in
1993. The organ was installed in the crypt of the Cathedral and remains there to the current time.
In August 1994 Geoffrey Revel purchased an Allen three-manual theatre organ with
four external speakers which he installed next to his harpsichord. He
built two tone cabinets with real pipe facades to house two speakers
either side of the console. Later when he returned to England he took
the Allen with him.
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| Information on current organ |
This
organ is the last of the four instruments that Geoffrey Revell built in
this style, with three way stop selectors. By all accounts it was
the most successful of his instruments in this style. |
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organ |
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| Other organs by this builder |
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| Photographs |
Photographs of organ and St. Mary's Cathedral by Pastor de Lasala from Organ Historical Trust of Australia web site
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| Technical documents |
Information about the organ from Pipe Organs WA and OHTA |
| General documents |
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| Supporting information |
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| Document control |
Original entries J R Elms, OAM, Gazetteer of Western Australian Pipe Organs, 1971, 1999,2003 and 2004.
This entry D B Duncan 25 January 2009.
Additional information provided by Graham Devenish 10 February 2009.
Additional information from Ron Raymond 11 November 2010.
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