Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G. G. Hook Opus 64 (1845)

Tremont Temple
Boston, MA

Images

1851 - Drawing Showing Facade, 1851 (Pen and Ink Drawing from the Collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
3 manuals
34 stops
37 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 59 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression

Notes

2005-02-26 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in *The Hook Opus List 1829-1935*, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). 44 registers -Database Manager

2015-12-15 - Updated through online information from Clyde Baker. <br>With reference to Bush, Douglas Earl, and Richard Kassel. The organ: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2006. 259. Print, states "In 1845 they produced their first concert hall organ in the Tremont Temple in Boston which later burned." implying the organ was destroyed. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist printed in the Boston 'Evening Transcript' December 13, 1845

Boston, Massachusetts
Tremont Temple

E. & G.G. HOOK, Opus 64, 1845 - Original Specifications


GREAT (GGG – f3; 59 notes)                   SWELL (GG – f3; 47 notes; Expressive)
[8]     Great Open Diapason                  [16]    Double Stop Diapason
[8]     Second Open Diapason                 [8]     Open Diapason
[8]     Melodia                              [8]     Stop Diapason
[8]     Stop Diapason                        [8]     Viol de Gamba
[8]     Stop Diapason Bass                   [4]     Principal
[4]     Principal                            [4]     Night Horn
[2 2/3] Twelfth                              [2]     Fifteenth
[2]     Fifteenth                            [3 Rks] Dulciana Cornet
[1 3/5] Tierce                               [8]     Trumpet
[1 1/3] Larigot                              [8]     Clarionet
[1]     Twenty-Second                        [8]     Hautbois
[3 Rks] Mixture                                      Tremulant
[8]     Trumpet Treble
[8]     Trumpet Bass
[4]     Clarion                              CHOIR (GGG – f3; 59 notes) 
                                             [8]     Open Diapason
                                             [8]     Dulciana
PEDAL (GGG – A; 27 notes)                    [8]     Stop Diapason
[16]    Double Open Diapason                 [8]     Stop Diapason Bass
[8]     Open Diapason  [wood]                [4]     Principal
[8]     Open Diapason  [metal]               [4]     Flute
                                             [2]     Fifteenth
                                             [8]     Cremona     (tf)


COUPLERS (Drawknob)                          FOOT TRUNDLES
Great to Pedal                               Unrecorded
Choir to Pedal

Swell to Great                               PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Choir to Great                               Swell Expression

Swell to Choir


ACTION: Mech. Key      VOICES: 34      STOPS: 37      RANKS: 38      PIPES: _____
           & Stop


NOTES

Sources: These are the specifications as printed in the Boston Evening Transcript,
         for December 13, 1845.


Tremont Temple
Boston, Massachusetts