The organ currently is being fully overhauled with new magnets and solenoids and will be installed into the new Meeting House which is presently being built. The console will be located opposite the organ with the organist facing the organ. A new computer-controlled relay system will replace all console relays and be mounted in the organ chamber. This system is designed by Lynton Gough who also designed the Pedal to Great Bottom-note coupler for the Chermside Uniting Church.

Two new ranks, the Principal and the Rohrflute, will be added to the existing pipework which will be voiced and blended to match the new room. A new blower will be fitted to the releathered bellows. A new Victorian Ash showfront with the existing pipes repainted will be made for the organ.

Small extension organs can be quite acceptable if they are well-voiced and are required to provide variety rather than loudness. With the addition of the two new ranks, we are now able to borrow the stops at 2 octave intervals rather than single octaves. This allows the voicer to blend the sounds of the organ with extra latitude; but giving them a more individual quality than if they were borrowed an octave apart. The main advantages of the extension organ are its economy and compactness, yet it still uses pipes to produce a natural sound.

Richard wiring-up the soundboard magnets.

The specification is:

• Bourdon 16
• Open Diapason 8
• Stopped Flute 8
• Salicional 8
• Principal 4
• Twelfth 2 2/3
• Fifteenth 2
• Quint 1 1/3
• Piccolo 1
• Clarion 4

• Bourdon 16
• Open Diapason 8
• Stopped Flute 8
• Salicional 8
• Principal 4
• Salicional 4
• Nazard 2 2/3
• Salicional 2
• Tierce 1 3/5
• Trumpet (Ten C) 16
• Trumpet 8
• Clarion 4
• Oboe 8

• Bourdon 16
• Open Diapason 16
• Stopped Flute 8
• Salicional 8
• Quint 5 1/3
• Principal 4
• Flute 4
• Trumpet 8
• Clarion 4

Disposition of the Ranks:

    Swell: Bourdon 16, Stopped Flute 8, Nazard 2 2/3

    Pedal: Bourdon 16, Stopped Flute 8, Quint 5 1/3

    Swell: Open Diapason 8

    Pedal: Open Diapason 8

Salicional:   Great: Salicional 8

    Swell: Salicional 8. Salicional 4, Salicional 2,

    Pedal: Salicional 8

Trumpet:   Great: Trumpet 8, Clarion 4

    Swell: Trumpet 16 (ten C), Trumpet 8, Clarion 4

    Pedal: Trumpet 8, Clarion 4

Principal (new):   Great: Principal 4, Twelfth 2 2/3, Quint 1 1/3

    Swell: Principal

    Pedal: Principal 4

Rohrflute (new):   Great: Flute 4, Piccolo 1

    Swell: Flute 4, Tierce 1 3/5,

    Pedal: Flute 4