Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G. G. Hook Opus 571 (1871)

Music Hall
Westminster Street
Providence, RI

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

Images

ca. 1890's - Unidentified newspaper quip with historic photo (Photograph from an archival source: Providence Public LIbrary Digital Collections | John Hutchins Cady Research Scrapbooks Collection, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Concert Hall Interior and Organ Case (Image from the Tracker (Vol. 29, #3, 1985). Original in OHS Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
28 stops
36 registers
4 divisions
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 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

2012-04-05 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -- In 1884 moved to Bethlehem Swedish Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. -Database Manager

2017-05-07 - G Compass -Database Manager

Stoplist

"Organ Scrapbook" - New-York Historical Society Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Providence, Rhode Island
Music Hall

E. & G.G. Hook  Opus 571  1871     3 manuals   28 stops   33 ranks
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            GREAT ORGAN                        SWELL ORGAN
   16' Open Diapason         58        8' Open Diapason         58
    8' Open Diapason         58        8' Salicional            58
    8' Doppel Flöte (w)      58        8' Stopped Diapason (w)  58
    8' Viol de Gamba (t)     58        4' Harmonic Flute        58
    4' Octave                58        4' Violin                58
2-2/3' Twelfth               58           Mixture III          174
    2' Fifteenth             58        8' Cornopean             58
       Mixture IV           232        8' Oboe & Bassoon        58
    8' Trumpet               58        8' Vox Humana            58
                                          Tremulant
            SOLO ORGAN
    8' Geigen Principal      58                PEDAL ORGAN
    8' Dulciana              58       16' Open Diapason (w)     27
    8' Melodia (w)           58       16' Bourdon (w)           27
    4' Flute d'Amour (w&m)   58        8' Violoncello           27
    2' Piccolo               58       16' Trombone (w)          27
    8' Clarinet              58
                                COUPLERS
                   Swell to Great     Great to Pedal
                   Solo to Great      Swell to Pedal
                   Swell to Solo      Solo to Pedal

 [Received from Steven E. Lawson 2012-04-05.]

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