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Harmonium   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Theophilus Peter Norris Hewlett
Title
Harmonium
Object type Music/recreation
Classification: NM3.14689
Description
English: "harmonium, locality- Auckland The Revd. Theophilus Peter Norris Hewlett built this reed organ for his daughter, Edith, who married Frederick John Snell of Maugakaramea. Harmonium, 5 octaves, New Zealand made. 7 straps, sordine, bourdon 16ft, diapasasn 8ft, clarinette 16ft, viox celeste, tremold, forte. Wood and metal. Circa 1870" (col.card)
Date 14 Nov 1991; Circa 1870; Victorian-Contemporary Age-European and British-art and design period
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height: 1030mm
width: 1130mm
depth: 540mm

notes: col.card
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
1991.262
Place of creation Auckland
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1991.262, col.3319
Notes "harmonium, locality- Auckland. Circa 1870" The Revd. Theophilus Peter Norris Hewlett built this reed organ for his daughter, Edith Theophila, who married Frederick John Snell of Maungakaramea in 1868.
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  • "St George's Anglican Church, Thames" in Indigenous and Exotic some organs of the Upper North Island - New Zealand. (Conference Book / PDF), Auckland and Waikato regions New Zealand. 29th Annual Conference (30 September - 5 October 2006), p. 69
    "​St George's Church, opened in 1872, ... ",
    "​The organ was built by The Revd Theophilus Peter Norris Hewlett (born Oxford, UK 1816, died Maungakaramea and buried Mangapai 1900) who operated a private school for boys in Upper Eythorne in Kent before emigrating to New Zealand in 1858. ... His only known pipe organs were a chamber instrument of around 1875, history and locations unknown, and the Thames instrument of 1877, opened in a concert 30 August and first used for a service 2 September of that year. ... "

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