Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 2579 (1930)

First Church of Christ, Scientist / The Nottingham-Spirk Innovation Center
2200 Overlook Rd.
Cleveland, OH

Images

2005-09-08 - Case (side view) (Photograph by Rob Gregory (Schantz Organ Company)/Database Manager)

2005-09-08 - Pipework (Photograph by Rob Gregory (Schantz Organ Company)/Database Manager)

2005-09-08 - Organ Case (Photograph by Rob Gregory (Schantz Organ Company)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

4 manuals
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

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

2007-12-11 - Updated through online information from Leek Pipe Organ Company. -- In the 70s the organ was kept up by a group of church members. Following, there was a restoration by the Leek Pipe Organ Company in the original way. However, an unknown builder at some point removed the original console and replaced it with a Klann console. There was a Mixture added and pipes disconnected. John Leek installed new relays in the late 70s. -Database Manager

2008-09-24 - Updated through online information from Joe McCabe. -- The building has been remodeled and carved into office space and is now called The Nottingham-Spirk Innovation Center. The organ remains installed at the front of the room. The organ is barely playable via a MIDI player added by an unknown person just following the recent rehab and expansion. The organ sustained damage during construction and is in very rough shape. -Database Manager

2008-09-24 - Updated through online information from Joe McCabe. -Database Manager

Websites

PropertiesWEB-Sept05.pdf [Properties Magazine, Inc., September 2005] - Description of renovated building, photographs of organ pp. 25 and 29 (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)