Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1810 (1898)

Cornell College: King Chapel
Mount Vernon, IA

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

Images

ca. 1898 - Organ case at front of King Chapel (Photograph from an archival source: From a builder's catalogue; facsimiie reproduction by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

c 1908 - Organ facade (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Rick Erickson/Rick Erickson)

ca. 1900 - Organ case/facade in front gallery (College archives/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
34 stops
33 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has coupler toe pistons

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

2006-11-02 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- 7-sectional façade containing 37 pipes arranged: 4-5-3-13-3-5-4. These were likely from the Great 16' Open Diapason & 8' Open Diapason. The organ had a Pedal-to-Pedal Super Octave coupler. There were six, fixed, double-acting foot trundle combination levers for: Great Forte, Mezzo, and Piano, as well as Swell Forte, Mezzo, and Piano - plus a Great-to-Pedal Reversible. The bottom ocatve of all manual divisions was pneumatically assisted. Wind was furnished by a water motor which was actuated by a hitch-down foot lever. The inaugural recial was given on Sunday evening February 18, 1899. -Database Manager

2009-12-10 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the Dedicatory Recital program 1898

Mount Vernon, Iowa
Cornell College - King Chapel

HOOK & HASTINGS, Opus 1810, 1898 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        SWELL (Expressive)
   16   Open Diapason               61          16   Bourdon Treble        (tc)  49
   8    Open Diapason               61          16   Bourdon Bass                12
   8    Viola da Gamba              61          8    Open Diapason               61
   8    Doppel Floete               61          8    Stopped Diapason            61
   4    Octave                      61          8    Salicional                  61
   4    Flute Harmonique            61          8    Voix Celeste          (tc)  49
   3    Twelfth                     61          8    Aeoline                     61
   2    Fifteenth                   61          4    Flauto Traverso             61
   III  Mixture                    183          4    Violina                     61
   8    Trumpet                     61          2    Flautino                    61
                                                III  Dolce Cornet               183
                                                8    Cornopean                   61
CHOIR (Expressive)                              8    Oboe  [with Bassoon]        61
   8    Geigen Principal            61          8    Vox Humana                  61
   8    Melodia                     61               Tremolo
   8    Dulciana                    61
   4    Flute d'Amour               61
   2    Piccolo                     61       PEDAL
   8    Clarinet                    61          16   Open Diapason   [wood]      30 
        Tremolo                                 16   Bourdon                     30
                                                8    Violoncello                 30
                                                8    Flute Bass                  30


COUPLERS (Drawknob)                          FOOT LEVERS (Unk if labeled)
   Swell to Pedal Unison                        Great Forte -
   Great to Pedal Unison                        Great Mezzo -
   Choir to Pedal Unison                        Great Piano -      All combination
   Pedal to Pedal Super Octave                                     pedals are
                                                Swell Forte -      double-acting
   Swell to Great Unison                        Swell Mezzo -
   Swell to Great Super Octave                  Swell Piano -
   Choir to Great Unison
                                                Gr. to Ped. -          (Reversible)
   Swell to Choir Unison
                                                Water Motor -          (hitch-down)

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)
   Choir Expression             (bal.)
   Crescendo                    (bal.)


ACTION: Mech. Key;     VOICES: 33      STOPS: 34      RANKS: 37      PIPES: 2,121
        T-P Stop &
        Combination


[Received from James R. Stettner 2014-09-26.]