St John's Anglican Church
cnr Birchgrove Road and Spring Street, Birchgrove

Griffin & Leggo 1913 (2/12 mechanical and pneumatic)

Photo: Robert Parkinson

From SOJ April/May 1992

This is another indigenous instrument, built by the firm of Griffin & Leggo whose partnership, though of only short duration, was responsible for the construction of some ten organs between the years 1912 and 1918.

The organ here dates from 1913 when the order was first placed however, installation did not take place until 1915, it's being dedicated on 1 July of that year.

Changes made to the instrument since its installation include the provision of the Principal 4' - put on a spare slide on the Great in 1924 and paid for by the church choir, and the alteration, by Hill, Norman & Beard under the instructions of the Parish, which caused the original Harmonic Flute 4' on the Great to be changed, sometime in the 1950s, to a Flute at 2' pitch.

The specification is:

Great Open Diapason Tibia minor Gemshorn Principal Flute Swell Geigen Hohl Flute Viol d'orchestre Gemshorn Oboe Pedal Bourdon Dolce Flute Coupler Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Swell to Great

8 8 8 4 2 8 8 8 4 8 16 8

Tremulant
4 combination pedals

Compass 56/30

Mechanical action to manuals and stop action
Pneumatic action to pedals

Photo: Robert Parkinson