SPECIAL BUILDING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 12

SPECIAL BUILDING

: TO HOUSE PIPE ORGAN I i WOOL APPRAISER'S "HOBBY" j'O.C.) SYDNEY. July 16. ] Mr. Arthur Lord, who lives in the I pleasant suburh of Killara on the ! North Shore, has had to erect a | special two-storey building in the i grounds of his home to house the i product of his peculiar hobbv—build- ! ing pipe organs. It has taken Mr. I Lord, who is a wool appraiser, three j years to build his instrument and he I says it would not be possible to have j a similar organ built for £10.000. He .claims that knowledge of 17 trades j and crafts, from plumbing to elec- ; tricity and musical theorv, is needed j by a pipe-organ builder. Mr. Lord's pipe organ is plavable ,by rolls. The console has four ; manuals and pedals, each, except the solo manual, provided with second ; touch. There are 176 stops. 1800 . pipes, 46 notes of the harp, 25 chimes and 25 bells. The action is electricI pneumatic, direct current being supi plied by a battery which is charged : by a generator. 1 Behind the music room on the top floor of the building is the organ chamber, containing wooden and zinc pipes, electric wiring and tool racks Thirty miles of enamelled copper ; wire and 26.000 electric contacts i were used in the installation. Be- ! hind the console is a portable keyboard with 40 stops, which enables the organ to be played from outside the building or to be tuned or regu- , lated without assistance.