Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 2310 (1912)

Scottish Rite Cathedral
500 S. Harwood
Dallas, TX

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

ca. 1912 - Console (Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs; pub. by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1912 - Stage with twin facades and console at the right (Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs; pub. by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1912 - Cathedral interior with organ. (Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs; pub. by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-08-02 - Building Exterior (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
5 manuals
122 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb 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

2008-04-02 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2012-03-07 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- According to the history of the cathedral on their website, the cathedral had more than one organ, this one the largest. The organ is mentioned in the article "The Masonic Lodge Pipe Organ" in THE DIAPASON, August 2008. It states that the organ had 53 ranks, two consoles, and a player mechanism. -Database Manager