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Hook & Hastings Opus 2301 (1912)

Unitarian (South Church)
292 State Street
Portsmouth, NH

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Unknown - Church front immediately prior to relocation of the Hook organ to the current location, ca. 1910 (Vintage postcard, courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

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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

2005-08-29 - Reconstruction of an earlier instrument - probably their 1858 Hook Op. 236. Some pipework was used in their later organ, a rebuilt 1910 Ernest M. Skinner organ moved here in 1952 and rebuilt by Skinner under Carl Bassett. -Database Manager

2013-12-09 - Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- The Hook organ originally was installed in a rear balcony. A major church remodeling in 1912 included moving the organ from the rear balcony to a position behind the lectern. -Database Manager


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