First Church of Christ, Scientist - Extension
210 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA
Images
ca.1906 - Organ case and facade from right side gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs; pub. by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Unknown - Facade and Auditorium (Jim Lewis collection, courtesy of Jim Lewis (c.1907)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console and auditorium (Jim Lewis collection, courtesy of Jim Lewis (c.1907)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church Interior and Pipe Facade (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1927)/Database Manager)
2008-08-16 - Vintage postacard image of organ facade (Digital image by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 4 manuals
- 69 stops
- 92 registers
- 6 divisions
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
Notes
2005-02-26 - 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
2013-08-10 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Specification from <i>The Etude</i> (November 1906) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Boston, Massachusetts
The First Church of Christ, Scientist - The Mother Church Extension
Hook & Hastings Co. Opus 2107 1906 4 manuals, 69 stops, 80 ranks
Manuals: 61 notes Pedal: 30 notes
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GREAT ORGAN SOLO ORGAN (enclosed)
16' Diapason 8' Stentorphone, Powerful
8' Diapason, Forte 8' Philomela
8' Diapason, Mezzo 8' Gamba, Powerful
8' Diapason, String 4' French Flute
8' Gamba 8' Tuba Mirabilis
8' Gemshorn 4' Tuba Octave
8' Hohl Flute 8' Orchestral Oboe
8' Doppel Floete
4' Flute Harmonique ECHO ORGAN (enclosed)
4' Octave (to operate from Solo keyboard)
3' Twelfth 16' Lieblich Gedeckt
2' Fifteenth 8' Viola
Mixture, 5 ranks 8' Viola d'Amour
16' Trumpet 8' Voix Celeste
8' Trumpet 8' Quintadina [sic]
4' Clarion 8' Viol d'Orchestre
4' Wald Flute
SWELL ORGAN (enclosed) 4' Gambette
16' Bourdon Harmonia Ætheria, 5 ranks
8' Diapason 8' Cor Anglais, Orchestral
8' Salicional
8' Concert Flute CATHEDRAL CHIMES
8' Unda Maris A complete set of tubular
8' Gedeckt bells of 20 notes from Ao,
8' Aeoline operated by compressed air
4' Flute Traverso and played from swell.
4' Octave
4' Violina PEDAL ORGAN
2' Flautino 32' Diapason
Dolce Cornet, 4 ranks 16' Diapason
16' Fagotto 16' Violone
8' Cornopean 16' Bourdon
8' Oboe 16' Dolce
8' Vox Humana, French 8' Gross Flute
8' Flauto Dolce
CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed) 8' Violoncello
16' Contra Dolce 16' Trombone
8' Diapason, Full 8' Trumpet
8' Diapason, String
8' Dolce, Dulciana COMBINATION PISTONS (Adj.)
8' Melodia 5 Great and Pedal
8' Gedeckt 5 Swell and Pedal
4' Flute d'Amour 3 Choir and Pedal
4' Fugara 3 Solo and Pedal
2' Piccolo 3 Echo and Pedal
8' Clarinet, Orchestral 1 General Release
Combination Adjustor
COUPLERS
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4 PEDAL COMBINATIONS
Choir to Great 16, 8 All diapasons in the organ
Solo to Great 16, 8 All flutes in the organ
Echo to Swell 8 All strings in the organ
Solo to Swell 8 All reeds in the organ
Echo to Choir 8 Full organ with all couplers
Swell to Choir 8
Great to Pedal 8 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Pedal 8, 4 Grand Crescendo Pedal and Full Organ
Choir to Pedal 8 Great to Pedal Reversible
Solo to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal Reversible
Solo on, Echo on [sic] Balanced Swell Pedal
All couplers Balanced Choir Pedal
Release compound couplers Balanced Solo and Echo Pedal
Motor Starter
ACCESSORIES
Tremolo, Swell
Tremolo, Echo
Crescendo Indicator
Wind Indicator
Organist's Bench, Adjustable
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2013-08-12.]
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