2016-11-06 - Console (Photograph by Adriaan Roux/Adriaan Roux)
2008-04-11 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2020-08-01 - Updated through online information by Adriaan Roux. -- When the organ was installed in the building, then named NG Elsies Rivier, in 1947 by Cooper, Gill and Tomkins of South Africa the area in which the church was built was known as Elsie's River. In subsequent years the area names or rather the borders of the suburbs moved around. The church now stands in Vrjizee, Goodwood, Cape Town, and Elsie's River is a few kilometers away from where it once was. The name of the congregation has been NG Vrjizee since about the 1950's or 60's when the area name changed The organ is very largely unaltered. The windchests and pipes are all original. The switching system of the organ was replaced in the 1990's by a SSLL system of England. The pneumatic setter system of the console was also replaced by solenoids. The console has been moved around a lot inside the church since 1947, and this must have been the reason for replacing the pneumatic motors with solenoids. -Jim Stettner
Source: Courtesy of the OHS Archives
Cape Town, South Africa
Dutch Reformed Church, Elsie's River
Möller Op. 7650 1948 2/6
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GREAT SWELL
8' Open Diapason * 61 16' Lieblich Bourdon 61
8' Dulciana * 73 8' Stopped Flute 12
8' Stopped Diapason SW 8' Gamba 73
4' Octave 12 4' Lieblich Flute 12
4' Dulcet 12 4' Gambette 12
4' Lieblich Flute SW 2 2/3' Nazard 7
8' Trumpet SW 2' Flautino 5
Sub 8' Trumpet 73
Super Tremulant
Sub
16' Bourdon 32 Super
16' Lieblich Bourdon SW
8' Bass Flute 12
4' Flute SW
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