Census ID | DRN1914 |
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Location | Dalian (Dairen), Anglican Church |
Builder | R. Spurden Rutt |
Specs | I/4 (+ Ped?) |
Action | Probably pneumatic or electro-pneumatic, though possibly hand-blown. |
DRN1914 was a small R. Spurden Rutt pipe organ built just before World War One, with one manual and 3 ranks, installed in the Anglican church in Dalian (aka Dairen, Dalny, Port Arthur):
Manual (C to a3) |
Open Diapason (Bass) 8′ Open Diapason (Treble) 8′ Lieblich Gedackt (Bass) 8′ Lieblich Gedackt (Treble) 8′ Principal 8′ |
Couplers |
Octave coupler Manual to Pedal coupler (possibly not supplied, and unclear how this might have been used.) |
Accessories | Violin patent melody action 8′ |
From a surviving photograph, is does not appear that the pedal division was included in the end. The ‘violin patent melody action’ (later called a ‘part-singing unit’) was a device to double the melodic line, “practically adding the resources of a second manual and pedal organ with imposing the slightest tax upon the player.” The façade pipes were the Open Diapason 8′, “of aluminum coated zinc”, and the other three ranks were under expression in a swell box. The case was of the then-popular fumed oak
Nothing further is known about this installation, and the church in which it was originally installed no longer exists (it was replaced by a new church building in 1928).