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Hook & Hastings Opus 2123 (1906)

First Baptist Church
Vermont and Meridian Streets
Indianapolis, IN

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


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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

2005-03-22 - Replaced by Casavant Frères Op. 2575 when the congregation moved to a new building at 8600 N. College Ave. in 1960. -Database Manager

2023-01-26 - The church building was finished at a cost of $227,000 and dedicated during the week of Novem.ber 25, 1906. The auditorium seated 1,400. The Hook & Hastings firm. of Boston, Massachusetts, installed its opus 2123, a two -manual, twenty-three-register organ. The instrument apparently had tubular-pneumatic action, because this was noted on the Kinetic blower order on July 27, 1915. The threehorsepower unit for 411 wind pressure cost $196.65 and was shipped on August 15. Perceval Owen played the Hook & Hastings for nearly thirty years and died at the console at age sixty-five on November 28, 1942, having just played "Abide with Me" during a choir rehearsal. -- *2007 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano


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