Liverpool Presbyterian Cemetery

B. 1987 Marc Nobel, 2 manuals, 10 speaking stops, 3 couplers, mechanical action

Relocated to St Joseph's Catholic Church, Neutral Bay by Peter DG Jewkes, 2022

From the SOJ Spring 2007, Peter Jewkes writes:

When a new chapel-cum-mausoleum was under construction for this historic cemetery, Organ Music Society of Sydney and Organ Historical Trust of Austalia member Charles Bardwell, in his capacity as Manager, succeeded in procuring a charming small 2 manual instrument from a private residence in Melbourne. This attractive organ was made by Marc Nobel in the 1987. The Jewkes firms' Rodney Ford travelled with Charles to Melbourne to confirm the organ's suitability for its proposed new home, after which it was dismantled by arrangement with Laurie Pipe Organs of Melbourne, and moved to the Jewkes Works in Sydney for storage until the chapel was complete.

It was then installed at Liverpool by the Jewkes team, with some minor tonal finishing by Peter Jewkes to adapt it to its new surrounds. The organ now sounds well and gives good service in the chapel, where its beautiful case with elaborately fretted pipe shades provides an excellent visual focal point. The plinth atop the case is decorated with the Latin text of the opening phrase of the Magnificat - "My soul doth magnify the Lord".

The specification is:

HAUPTWERK Holzgedact Prinzipal Terz Rauschquint HINTERWERK Quintadeena Flöte Octave PEDAL Subbass Bordun Dulzian

8 4 1-1/2 II 8 4 2 16 8 16

[Upper manual] [sic] E2 - C4 C1-B1 19.22 and C2-F5 12.15 [Lower manual] [sic] A A

Hauptwerk to Hinterwerk [by shove coupler, so not labelled]
Hinterwerk-Pedal
Hauptwerk-Pedal

Mechanical key and stop action, with the exception of the three pedal registers which are electric.
Compass 54/30

Temperament : Young-Valotti

Above: The alleyway of mausoleums


Photos: Peter Jewkes (August 2007)






View from console diagonally across the chapel and out to the cemetery



3 photos above: MQ (Oct. 2007)