At this time the firm formed a short-term alliance with Rieger Orgelbau, and Estey built its last instruments in an Orgelbewegung style, quite different from its conservative Romantic style of earlier years. From 1955 Estey's pipe organ division was managed by Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer (1924-2015), of the famous Bavarian family of organbuilders. 2 (There are examples of the Haskell bass in the Scone organ, most interestingly in the metal tubes inserted in the wooden pipes of the Great Melodia 8). Haskell (1865-1927), famous for his invention of the "Haskell bass", whereby flue tone is produced by pipes of half-length by means of a smaller diameter tube within the pipe. The builder's nameplate and the retailer's stamp on the console at SconeĮstey's pipe organ division was first managed by William E. Paling & Co.), its work in building some 3,000 pipe organs between 19 is not as widely known in this country. While the Estey firm exported many thousands of reed organs to Australia in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries (and many through the agency of W.H. The pipe organ was ordered in 1912 from the Estey Organ Co., of Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, by W.H. The Uniting Church, Scone: church exterior Norman's 25 years ministry in the Scone parish. Fleming, of Kelvinside, was presented with a neatly designed silver key with which she unlocked the door, and in opening the building, referred with pleasure to the Rev. McNaughton and Sons, of Newcastle, under the supervision of the architects, Messrs.
The work has been well and faithfully carried out by Messrs.
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The windows open amply for summer ventilation, and are glazed in tinted muffled glass in lead lights. Ventilation is provided by a large number of Tobin tubes, supplying fresh air, and corresponding outlets are arranged in the ceiling with exhaust tubes. The seating accommodation is for about 250. The approach is on the south west corner, and there is another porch on the north side, and separate entries tor the choir and vestry, so that the place can be emptied very quickly. A vestry 20 feet by 10 feet, with the provision for a future organ chamber, is included. The seating is so arranged that everyone can see and hear without effort. At the east end is a recessed archway, containing a raised dais, with the pulpit at the north. The roof is on the hammer beam principle, lined on the rafters, and to half way up the height with Cypress pine, the hammer beams and ribs are of Oregon. The interior walls are finished in tuck pointed brickwork. The foundations are of reinforced concrete and the roof is covered with purple Welsh slates. The new church is constructed of brown bricks from Waratah, with double pressed brick mouldings from Strathfield. Bakewell, and adjoining the fine brick manse. The opening of the present building was described in The Maitland Weekly Mercury, as follows:Īmong the new buildings of which the neat little town of can boast is the Presbyterian Church, the most recent and very valuable addition to the Hunter Presbytery properties, standing on an acre of ground, the gift or Mr. The original Presbyterian Church in Scone was opened in 1873 and was superseded by the present church, the foundation stone of which was laid on 4th May 1911 by the Rev.
The 1912 Estey organ at the Uniting Church, Scone
Historical and Technical Documentation by Kelvin Hastie Electrified 1984 Brown & Arkley, SydneyĢ manuals, 9 speaking stops, 7 couplers, electro-pneumatic action ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH SCONE Uniting (formerly St Andrew's Presbyterian) Church Main Street, Scone Estey Organ Co., Vermont, USA, 1912
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