Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook-Hastings Co. Opus 1733 (1896)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
Providence, RI

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
11 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: None

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

2006-11-20 - Now in Holy Trinity Episcopal, Tiverton, Rhode Island. The date of its relocation has not been documented. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a relayed OHS Database entry

Providence, Rhode Island
St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Nameplate: Hook & Hastings Co.,  
           Boston.
No. 1733 1896
Compasses: C1-a58' C1-d27
Pitch: A=434 @ 70°
Pressure: 70mm (approx. the 2 5/8" stated on 
                Op. Diap. f14 pipe)

    GREAT
Gr. 8'  Open Diapason            58  [facade 1-17]
Gr. 8'  Dulciana         [t.c.]  46
Gr. 8'  Melodia          [t.c.]  46
Gr. 8'  Stop'd Diapason Bass     12  [1-12]
Gr. 4'  Octave                   58

    SWELL (Expressive) 
Sw. 8'  Stop'd Diapason  [t.c.]  46
Sw. 8'  Viola            [t.c.]  46
Sw. 8'  Unison Bass              12  [1-12]
Sw. 4'  Flute Harmonique         58  [harm. @ c25]
Sw. 8'  Oboe             [t.c.]  46
        Tremolo

     PEDAL:
Ped. 16' Sub Bass                27 

     COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Sw. to Gr. Unison
Sw. to Gr. 8va

     MECHANICALS:
Blower's Signal
Sliding wind gauge in nameboard

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