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E. & G. G. Hook Opus 223 (1857)

First Unitarian Church
6th and D Streets Northwest
Washington, DC

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Consoles

Keydesk


Notes

2005-02-16 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in <i>The Hook Opus List 1829-1935</i>, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -Database Manager

2020-10-25 - The Washington Union- October 28, 1858 pg. 3 NEW ORGAN- Last evening the new and beautiful organ at the Unitarian church was exhibited to quite a large assemblage, composed of members of the congregation and others interested in music. It is from the factory of Messers E. & G. G. Hook, of Boston, and is a powerful and sweet-toned instrument. It has twenty stops, viz: Tremulant, hautboy, principal, stopped diapason, celestina bass, and stopped diapason bass in the swell, with open diapason, stopped diapason treble, stopped diapason bass, principal, flute, fifteenth and Viol d'Amour in the great organ, and sub-bass, with the couplers swell to great, swell to pedals and great to pedals, and bellow signal. There are two manuals and two octaves of pedals. The case is dark, in imitation of black walnut, with three rows of handsome gilt pipes in front, and arched in the centre at the top. The size of the organ is 15 feet high, 10 feet wide, and 7 feet deep. .... (more about the performers and musical selections. ) -Steven Bartley


Stoplist

Bellows Signal. Hook down Swell Pedal. Pedal Actions: Great, full; Great, piano single action in only [sic] Source: Tracker 1:1 October 1956 Page 6; corrections from console photos

GREAT Open Diapason 8, Flute Bass 8, Flute 8 (TF), Viol D'Amour 4 (TF), Fifteenth 2, Octave 4, Flute 4

SWELL Open Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason Bass 8, Stopped Diapason Treble 8 (TF), Principal 4 (TF), Dolciana 8 (TF), Hautboy 8, Celestina Bass 4, Tremulant

PEDAL Sub Bass 16

SWELL to GREAT 8, GREAT to PEDAL 8, SWELL to PEDAL 8


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