Lost Pipe Organs of Australia by Geoffrey Cox

Author:Geoffrey Cox [G. Cox, K. Hastie, J. Maidment]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781543403305
Publisher: Xlibris AU
Published: 2017-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

25. Carlton, Victoria: Exhibition Building.

Alfred Fuller, Kew, 1880.

3 manuals, 33 speaking stops, 7 couplers, mechanical action.

Photographer: unknown, before 1926.

Source: Toorak Uniting Church newsletter.

This was the first instrument that Alfred Fuller built in Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in 1872, after training in London with G. M. Holdich and later gaining some experience in America, but his first years here were spent as a brewer.

The organ was exhibited at the 1880 Melbourne Exhibition and placed in the gallery of the south transept; it was awarded a fifth Order of Merit. The instrument incorporated an elaborately painted case and decorated façade pipes and had the first Pedal reed stop manufactured in the colony. In 1881 it was installed at the Presbyterian Church, Toorak, where it was enlarged by Fuller in 1886. The organ was rebuilt by Geo. Fincham & Sons in 1926 and relocated in 1940 to the right transept behind new cases. In 1980 it was removed and some components used for the organ at St Leonard’s College, Brighton, Victoria.

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