Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 2474 (1923)

Beneficent Congregational Society
300 Weybosset St.
Providence, RI

Images

2015 - Organ case and console (Photograph by Enno Fritsch/Enno Fritsch)

2021-08-01 - Church exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-11-24 - Church interior and organ case (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
47 registers
4 divisions

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

2022-11-28 - The organ was a gift by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller in memory of her mother; the organ now has a 3-manual Austin stopkey console. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON January 1924

     Providence, Rhode Island
     Beneficent Congregational Church

     Hook & Hastings  Op. 2474   1923
     _________________________________________

     GREAT                  SWELL
 16' Bourdon            16' Lieblich Gedeckt
  8' Open Diapason       8' Violin Diapason
  8' Grossflöte          8' Gedeckt
  8' Concert Flute       8' Gamba
  8' Zauberflöte         8' Gamba Celeste
  8' Viol d'Amour        8' Salicional
  4' Hohlflöte           8' Salicional Celeste
  2' Flautino            8' Dolce
  V  Mixture             8' Dolce Celeste
  8' Trumpet             4' Waldflöte
  8' Oboe d'Amore        2' Flautino
  8' Clarinet          III  Dolce Cornet
     Tremolo            16' Trumpet
                         8' Cornopean
     PEDAL               8' Oboe
 16' Open Diapason       8' Vox Humana
 16' Sub Bass               Tremolo
 16' Violone
 16' Bourdon                CHOIR
 16' Lieblich Gedeckt    8' Violin Diapason
  8' Diapason            8' Zauberflöte
  8' Flute               8' Concert Flute
  8' Violoncello         8' Viol d'Amore
 16' Trombone            8' Dolce
  8' Trumpet             8' Dolce Celeste
                         4' Hohlflöte
                         8' Clarinet                
                         8' Oboe d'Amore                
                            Tremolo
                            Chimes    20 *

* playable from all 3 manuals and Pedal

[Received from Jeff Scofield November 27, 2022]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON January 1924 Stoplist and commentary about the dedication concert -Jeff Scofield