Updates for October 2025
1 November 2025The page for FCW2018b has been updated. The organ in the new church (adjacent to the old church) was seen by Prof. Urrows in October, but appears now to be disused, seven years after its installation. A service at Flower Lane Church on 19 October was accompanied entirely on a piano.
The two new organs by Fisk at Hong Kong Baptist University have been installed, and the III/33 concert organ (Op. 158) was dedicated on 23 October by American organist Ken Cowan (HKG2025b). The small three-manual practice organ (Op. 159) HKG2025c, has also now been completed. Both organs will be added to the Census this month (November). They were featured on the cover of the October 2025 issue of TAO.
The Church of St. Laurence in Macau has installed a vintage 1870 Walker organ. This is a historic event, as there were four organs by Walker in Mainland China and Hong Kong built between 1883 and 1911, all lost or destroyed by the 1960s. This newly-installed instrument (MAC2025a) is a II/13 organ, originally built as a house organ and later used for many decades by a convent in Cornwall. The opus number of this organ is not known at the present time.
The long-delayed large Casavant organ for the Cathedral in Macau is currently under installation, and should be ready by the end of this year, or the start of the next.
Finally, Rieger has installed a kind of concert organ (CAN2025) in the hot springs resort of Chunmuyuan, in Heyuan, Guangdong Province (a place given the English name of ‘Springwoods’). The pavilion is designed so that the organ can be heard both in the enclosed space and in the park surrounding it. Perhaps this is in emulation of such organs as the Balboa Park instrument in San Diego. The Project is waiting for specs and an opus number before adding this organ to the Census.
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Photo of the Month: The interior of the 1938 Flower Lane Church, Fuzhou (Huaxiang Tong ( 花巷堂), originally known the Siong Iu Dong,尚友堂 .) The ‘organ’ on the left side of the nave is an electronic instrument.
