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E. & G. G. Hook Opus 20 (1836)

St. Peter's Episcopal Church
107 State Street
Albany, NY

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


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Notes

2005-03-01 - 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

2012-08-23 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The church website (2012-08-20) reports "Messrs. E. and G. G. Hook of Boston built a new organ, Op. 20, of two manuals and twenty-four stops for St. Peter's. A report in the Albany Evening Journal describes this organ in glowing terms, and says, 'The cost, we understand, was three thousand dollars.' St. George's Church, Schenectady, purchased Hook's Op. 38 instrument a few years later." -Database Manager

2015-03-27 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -- Relocated to St. George's Episcopal Church, Schenectady, New York in 1860 and replaced by a new Wm. A. Johnson organ. -Database Manager


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