| Name of institution |
Amusement Services and Supplies |
| Type of institution |
Service |
| Street Address |
20 Murray Road
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| City |
Welshpool |
| State |
Western Australia |
| Postcode |
6106
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| Country |
Australia |
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| Dates of the building |
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| Name of contact |
Robert Crowley |
| Mailing Address |
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| Telephone |
08 94513941 |
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| Previous organ(s) |
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| Date of previous organ |
None |
| Detail of previous organ |
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| Present organ |
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| Type of installation |
Caravan mounted fairground organ |
| Case description |
Caravan |
| Placement in room |
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| Builder's name |
Julius Bartholomeus Vander Beken |
| Opus number |
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| Date of completion/installation |
1920's
Imported to Western Australia 1973 |
| Construction materials |
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| Number of manuals |
Book-operated fairground organ |
| Key compasses |
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| Number of keys |
62 keys, played from book mechanism |
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| Pedal compass |
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| Number of pedals |
None |
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| Type of key action |
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| Type of stop action |
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| Couplers |
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| Tremulants |
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| Accessories |
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| Console type |
None |
| Stop label material |
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| Placement |
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| General design |
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| Playing aids |
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| Divisions |
Basses
Melody
Accompaniment |
| Wind pressures |
9 1/2"or 240mm wg
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| Stop list |
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| Basses and Trombones |
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| Accompaniment and Trumpet |
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| Melody (violin, carillion) |
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| Bell ringers |
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| Bass Drum |
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| Snare Drum |
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| Cymbal |
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| Total number of stops |
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| Total number of ranks |
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| Total number of pipes |
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| Dates when key work has been undertaken on current
organ |
Organ imported to Australia 1973
Refurbishment carried out by Pipe Organs of WA April 2013 |
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organ |
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| Information on current organ |
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| Comparable instruments to current
organ |
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| Current status |
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| Assessment of organ |
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| Other organs by this builder |
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| Photographs |
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| Technical documents |
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| General documents |
Julius Bartholomeus Vander Beken (1868-1948), was an employee of
Hooghuys Organ Works, Brugge and Geraardsbergen, Belgium, and later on
started his own organ building company in Enghien, Belgium.
Information on builder from Hooghuys web site.
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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 02 February 2009.
Photographs from Graham Devenish, April 2013
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Book reader mechanism
Open and stopped wood pipes
Trombone pipes
