NEW CATHEDRAL ORGAN

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1930, Page 9

NEW CATHEDRAL ORGAN

ACQUISITION '■ TO SYDNEY.

INSTALLED IN ST. ANDREW’S.

(Sydney, October 2. If many Anglicans in Sydney feel that their old cathedral—St. Andrew s—is behind the times, especially when they see the . stately ■ Roman Catholic St. Mary’s Cathedral gracing Hyde Park, they are at least to have the satisfaction of having shortly one of the finest church organs, if not the best instrument of . the kind, in the Commonwealth. This. organ, which is to be opened, it that term can be applied, on October I*, with‘fitting musical ritual, has taken close on ten months to instal. - One has to get behind this organ and become almost enmeshed in a labyrinthic maze of tons of pipes and. tubes to appreciate what it means to instal such an instrument, so simple-looking if one glances merely at the keyboards. One of the pipes, 32ft. in length, is big enough to enable a man to get tl rough it. These pipes range in size down to some measuring only three-eighths of an inch long. Exeprte have acclaimed this organ one of the most perfect instruments in existence from the standpoint of tonal quality. It is costing more than £lO,OOO. The organ was originally built as a gift 'by its builder to a proposed concert hall in his home town in England, but the hall was never built and the cathedral authorities seized the opportunity to secure it. The fact that the new has been installed appears to suggest that all hope of securing another site for a new St. Andrew’s has disappeared, to the great content, however, of that .section of the Anglican community who, mainly for sentimental reasons, fought the proposal to move jthe ca-thadral.