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Hook & Hastings Opus 2480 (1924)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
510 W. Main Street
Knoxville, TN

Images

ca. 1924 - Sanctuary interior showing front chambers and console placement (Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs; pub. by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1920's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
35 stops
33 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti 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

2007-05-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Source: 1954 Knoxville AGO program for a recital being given by Karl Weinrich on Feb. 9. Replaced by a new Schantz in 1973. Disposition unknown. -Database Manager

2008-03-23 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Corrected to 4 manuals per stoplist in THE DIAPASON and photo on p. 306 of The Hook Opus List, published by the OHS. -Database Manager

2011-02-14 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The Echo organ was to be "placed in a remote tower room, and from this room there will extend a large sound conveyor with three branches connecting with three perforated rosettes placed in the vaulted ceiling above the rear gallery;" Schantz added a new 4-manual console (utilizing the shell of the old console) in 1955 and rebuilt and enlarged the organ in 1973. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> December 1923 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Knoxville, Tennessee
     First Baptist Church

     Hook & Hastings   Op. 2480   1924   4/34
     ________________________________________________

     GREAT                        CHOIR
  8' Open Diapason    61       8' Violin Diapason  73
  8' Doppelflöte      61       8' Melodia          73   
  8' Viola da Gamba   61       8' Dulciana         73
  8' Viole d'Amour    61       4' Flute d'Amour    73
  4' Octave           61       2' Piccolo          61
  4' Waldflöte        61       8' Clarinet         61
  8' Tuba             61          Tremolo
     Chimes
                                  ECHO
     SWELL                     8' Cor de Nuit      73
 16' Bourdon          73       8' Echo Viole       73
  8' Open Diapason    73       8' Unda Maris       61
  8' Stopped Diapason 73       4' Fernflöte        73
  8' Salicional       73       8' Cor Anglais      73
  8' Voix Celeste     61          Tremolo
  8' Aeoline          73
  4' Flauto Traverso  73          PEDAL
  2' Flautino         61      16' Open Diapason    32 
III  Dolce Cornet    183      16' Bourdon          32
  8' Cornopean        73      16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
  8' Oboe             73       8' Violoncello      32
  8' Vox Humana       73       8' Flauto Dolce     12
     Tremolo

[Received online from Jeff Scofield February 11, 2011]

Documents

(1924-08-25) The Marvelous Completed First Baptist Church Description of church and organ -Jeff Scofield

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