Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 2400 (1917)

First Presbyterian Church
150 E Palisade Ave.
Englewood, NJ

Images

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Twin Organ Cases (Archival Photograph (1935); image courtesy of David Macfarlane/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
35 stops
43 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)

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

2014-06-08 - Updated through online information from David Macfarlane. -- The organ was rebuilt by Ernest M. Skinner in 1946. Subsequently rebuilt by Chester Raymond in 1954. Entirely removed for the installation of the Moller in 1966, with the exception of the wooden 16" Subbass which was stoppered for a 32'. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON September 1917

    Englewood, New Jersey
    First Presbyterian Church

    Hook & Hastings  Op. 2400  1917  3/37
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    GREAT                    SWELL
 8' Open Diapason 1      16' Lieblich Bourdon
 8' Open Diapason 2       8' Open Diapason
 8' Stentorphone          8' Gedeckt
 8' Doppelflöte           8' Viole d'Orchestre
 8' Viola di Gamba        8' Quintadena
 8' Viole d'Amour         8' Salicional
 4' Octave                8' Voix Celeste
 4' Flute Harmonique      8' Aeoline
16' Posaune               4' Flute Traverso
 8' Tuba                  4' Violina
    Chimes        CH     II  Solo Dolce Cornet
    Harp          CH     16' Contra Fagotto
                          8' Cornopean
    CHOIR                 8' Orchestral Oboe
 8' English Diapason      8' Vox Humana
 8' Geigen Principal         Tremolo
 8' Concert Flute
 8' Flute Celeste            PEDAL
 8' Dulciana             32' Resultant        --
 4' Rohrflöte            16' Open Diapason
 2' Piccolo Harmonique   16' Bourdon
 8' Clarinet             16' Violone
    Tremolo              16' Lieblich Bourdon SW
    Chimes                8' Grossflöte       12
    Harp          61      8' Flauto Dolce     12
                          8' Violoncello      12
                         16' Posaune          GT
                          8' Tuba             GT

   [Received from Jeff Scofield August 12, 2023]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON September 1917 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#41252†* - Chester A. Raymond (1954)