Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 2024 (1904)

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church: Church
315 N Constitution Avenue
New Freedom, PA

Images

Unknown - Organ Facade (Photograph by Evan Brickner/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Pipe Facade and Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Console and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Movable Console
2 manuals
26 stops
32 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2005-11-24 - Identified from the Reuter Opus List, provided by Chris Leaver, Reuter Organ Co., November, 2005. -Database Manager

2013-02-18 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The original tubular-pneumatic instrument has been converted to electric-key action and the console placed on a movable platform. -Database Manager

2013-10-24 - Updated through online information from Evan Brickner. -Database Manager

2014-06-23 - Updated through online information from Evan Brickner. -Database Manager

2022-04-22 - Rebuild 1987 and addition 2002 by R. J. Brunner & Co. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist from the 2003 OHS Convention Handbook Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     New Freedom, Pennsylvania
     St. John the Baptist R. C. Church

     Hook & Hastings   Op. 2024   1904   2/29 
     _______________________________________________________________________      

     GREAT                      SWELL                       PEDAL
 16' Open Diapason  61 a    16' Bourdon          61     16' Open Diapason 30
  8' Open Diapason  61 b     8' Open Diapason    61     16' Bourdon       30
  8' Viola da Gamba 61       8' Stopped Diapason 61      8' Violoncello   30
  8' Melodia        61       8' Salicional       61     
  8' Dulciana       61       8' Aeoline          61
  4' Octave         61       4' Violina          61      
  4' Flute d'Amour  61       4' Flute Harmonique 61      
  3' Twelfth        61       2' Flautino         61
  2' Fifteenth      61     III  Dolce Cornet    183
III  Mixture       183       8' Cornopean        61
  8' Trumpet        61       8' Oboe             61
                                Tremolo
  a  1-22 in facade
  b  in facade

             [Received online from Jeff Scofield December 27, 2012]
  [edited 2022-04-22 by Paul R MArchesano, reflecting this original build and linked records to Brunner rebuild]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#58302 - R. J. Brunner & Co. (2002& 1987)