366 Days of 2012, Day 323 - The Town Hall Concert Organ

The Adelaide Town Hall has a very beautiful concert organ and it is a testament to the vision of the Adelaide City Council back in 1987 that it needed to furnish this Adelaide city icon with an instrument worthy of the historic building.

The previous concert organ had served well over 100 years and in the later parts of it's life had lost the sense of its former self having gone through alterations and modifications which were ultimately unsuccessful in preserving its character.

This new concert organ built in the U.K by J.W.Walker & Sons Ltd in 1989 with 4 manuals, 61 speaking stops is by all accounts a worthy replacement.

Tonight I was treated to a performance by the Australian Girls Choir and as photography 'of the artists' was expressly forbidden, I aimed high and captured the magnificent concert organ instead.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 323 - The Town Hall Concert Organ'. 1/125s f/2.8 ISO1600 200mm