Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 975 (1880)

Tremont Temple
Boston, MA

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

Images

ca. 1880 - Organ case and facade (Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs, published by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1881 - Facade (King's Handbook of Boston/Christian Tedesco )

1883 - Facade covered in flags (Boston Public Library /Christian Tedesco )

Consoles

Main

4 manuals
51 stops
5 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

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

2014-12-31 - The church interior and organ were destroyed by fire on March 19, 1893. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from 'The Organ in New England' by Barbara Owen (Raleigh: The Sunbury Press, 1979 1979

Boston, Massachusetts
Tremont Temple

E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings   Opus 975   1880   4 manuals, 51 stops, 60 ranks
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Source: Dwight's Journal of Music (Oct. 23, 1880)

        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
    16' Open Diapason       61             16' Bourdon             61
     8' Open Diapason       61              8' Open Diapason       61
     8' Viola de Gamba      61              8' Salicional          61
     8' Doppelflöte         61              8' Stopped Diapason    61
     8' Gemshorn            61              8' Quintadena          61
 5 1/3' Quint               61              4' Flauto Traverso     61
     4' Octave              61              4' Octave              61
     4' Flute Harmonique    61              4' Violina             61
 2 2/3' Twelfth             61              2' Flautino            61
     2' Fifteenth           61             IV  Dolce Cornet       244
    IV  Mixture            244             16' Contra Fagotto      61
    IV  Acuta              244              8' Cornopean           61
    16' Trumpet             61              8' Oboe & Bassoon      61
     8' Trumpet             61              4' Clarion             61
     4' Clarion             61
                                               SOLO ORGAN
        CHOIR ORGAN                         8' Stentorphon         61
    16' Lieblich Gedackt    61              8' Tuba Mirabilis      61
     8' English Open Diap.  61
     8' Geigen Principal    61                 PEDAL ORGAN
     8' Dulciana            61             32' Bourdon             30
     8' Stopped Diapason    61             16' Open Diapason       30
     8' Melodia             61             16' Dulciana            30
     4' Flute d'Amour       61             16' Violone             30
     4' Fugara              61         10 2/3' Quintflöte          30
     2' Piccolo             61              8' Violoncello         30
     8' Clarinet            61              8' Octave              30
     8' Vox Angelica        61             16' Trombone            30
                                            8' Trumpet             30

        14 couplers and other mechanical registers
        10 pedal movements and combinations
        Grand Crescendo Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-12-31]