The Organ
The Organ in St Stephen's Uniting Church was built in 1934 by the Australian firm Hill, Norman and Beard. It consists of 45 stops (with a further 2 stops still 'prepared for') and holds within its chamber approximately 3,500 pipes. During the 1970's, a number of changes were made to the organ, bringing it into line with the neo-Baroque style prevalent during that time.
A detailed specification of the organ is given below. For further information and photos of the past and present organs of St Stephen's, please visit: www.sydneyorgan.com/StStephens.html
| Great | Choir (unenclosed) | |||||
| Double Diapason | 16 |
A | Phonon Diapason | 8 |
G | |
| Open Diapason | 8 |
A | Lieblich Gedact | 8 |
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| Phonon Diapason | 8 |
G | Dulciana | 8 |
C | |
| Doppel Flute | 8 |
Harmonic Flute | 4 |
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| Viol d'Orchestre | 8 |
Dulcet | 4 |
C | ||
| Principal | 4 |
Nazard | 2-2/3 |
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| Clarabel Flute | 4 |
Fifteenth | 2 |
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| Twelfth | 2-2/3 |
Tierce | 1-3/5 |
C | ||
| Fifteenth | 2 |
(blank) | prep |
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| Mixture IV | prep |
Scharf | II |
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| Tromba | 8 |
Clarinet | 8 |
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| Octave | ||||||
| Swell (enclosed) | ||||||
| Contra Viol | 16 |
B | Pedal | |||
| Open Diapason | 8 |
Resultant Bass | 32 |
D+H | ||
| Concert Flute | 8 |
Major Bass | 16 |
D | ||
| Viol d'Orchestre | 8 |
Open Diapason | 16 |
A | ||
| Voix Celeste | 8 |
Bourdon | 16 |
H | ||
| Octave | 4 |
Dulciana | 16 |
C | ||
| Harmonic Flute | 4 |
Contra Viol | 16 |
B | ||
| Twelfth | 2-2/3 |
Octave | 8 |
D | ||
| Fifteenth | 2 |
Octave Diapason | 4 |
A | ||
| Mixture | III |
Mixture | II |
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| Contra Fagotto | 16 |
F | Posaune | 16 |
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| Fagotto | 8 |
F | Contra Fagott | 16 |
F | |
| Trumpet | 8 |
Rohr Schalmei | 4 |
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| Octave | ||||||
| Sub Octave | ||||||
| 5 pistons to Swell | Swell - Great | |||||
| 5 pistons to Great | Swell Octave - Great | |||||
| 5 pistons to Choir | Swell Sub - Great | |||||
| 5 pistons to Pedal | Choir - Great | |||||
| Swell - Choir | ||||||
| Tremulant Swell | (not installed) |
Swell Octave - Choir | ||||
| Tremulant Choir | (not installed) |
Great - Pedal | ||||
| Swell - Pedal | ||||||
| Choir - Pedal | ||||||
The 1970s and 2009 - 2012 changes included:
• a new Scharf Mixture for the Choir organ;
• a new 4' Principal rank for the Great organ. The old 4' Principal rank became the new 2' Fifteenth, with the old 2' rank becoming the new Tweflth;
• The Choir Diapason was moved to the Great soundboard in place of the Phonon Diapason;
• The Swell 8' Trumpet was moved to the Great, with the Great Tromba moving to the Swell at 4' pitch. (In recent years, the 4' Trumpet was returned to its original 8' pitch but is only from tenor C);
• A 16' Posaune, 4' Schalmei and Mixture were added to the Pedal department;
• The Great Mixture was moved to the Swell, with pipes from the old Swell Mixture being used to create the new Swell Larigot, Twelfth and Fifteenth and possibly the Choir Nazard; several ranks from both Mixtures were used on the Swell and Choir in experiments and it is unclear what has ended up where;
• Removal of the Celeste and Vox Humana from the Swell division;
• Removal of Choir Clarinet (this was intended to have been replaced with a Krummhorn, which was "prepared for" but not installed);
• Removal of the 32' Harmonic Bass from the Pedal division;
• An Octave 4' was added to the Pedal and extended to form a Principal 2', both borrowed from the Great Open Diapason. The Principal 2' was removed in 2009 to use the stop knob for the reconnected Resultant Bass 32';
• The Swell Larigot was removed in 2010 and replaced with a second hand Voix Celeste rank from Melbourne;
• A secondhand Clarinet rank from a 1935 HN & B organ in the UK was installed in 2012.
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