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21 May 2008

Louis Matheson Pipe Organ

The Louis Matheson Pipe Organ, located in the Robert Blackwood Hall, is the first example seen in the Southern Hemisphere of the work of Jurgen Ahrend, widely recognised as one of the finest organ builders and restorers of the present era.

It took Ahrend more than two years to build the organ in his German studio before it was transported and installed in Robert Blackwood Hall in 1980.

The case and other woodwork are made from oak, selected and seasoned by the builder for over ten years. The pipes are made from tin, lead and oak and the keyboards of boxwood and ebony.

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