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Hook & Hastings Co. Opus 1838 (1899)

Methodist Church
246 Main St.
Wellfleet, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-02-28 - 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

2019-10-03 - Updated thru information by James R. Stettner who has serviced the instrument. -- The organ has a unique <i>Pedal Quint</i> coupler. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from James R. Stettner Source: Andover Organ Co. files and stoplist copied from the console in June 1988 Date not recorded

Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Methodist Church

HOOK & HASTINGS CO., Opus 1838, 1899 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   8   Open Diapason                61          Swell to Pedal
   8   Dulciana               (tc)  49          Great to Pedal
   8   Melodia                (tc)  49
   8   Stop'd Dia. Bass             12          Sw. to Gr. Unison
   4   Octave                       61          Sw. to Gr. at Octaves

                                                Pedal Quint  [20 notes]
SWELL (Expressive)
   8   Viola                  (tc)  49
   8   Stop'd Diapason        (tc)  49       FOOT TRUNDLES (Unlabeled)
   8   Unison Bass                  12          Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)
   4   Flute Harmonique             61
   8   Oboe                   (tc)  49
       Tremolo                               PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                                Swell Expression             (bal.)

PEDAL
   16  Sub Bass                     27


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop      VOICES: 9      STOPS: 11      RANKS: 9      PIPES: 479


NOTES


Sources: H&H opus list; Andover Organ Co. files; JRS; extant, altered organ


Methodist Church
246 Main St.
Wellfleet, MA. 02667
(508) 349-7217                               Documented: June, 1988

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