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Hook & Hastings Opus 1159 (1883)

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

Images

2008-12-15 - Photo from church archives; used with permission (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 19 stops
• 17 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: 58 notes
• Pedal compass: 27 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
• Has combination toe pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons

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

2007-03-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional facade with 27 pipes arranged: 5-17-5. 13 "tomato can" dummies behind/above center flat. Pipes ornately stenciled. Stenciled Bourdon pipes form the sides of the case. Relocated to the new building on Park St. in 1891. -Database Manager

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