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E. & G. G. Hook Opus S-11 (1865)

United Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front
67 Foss Street
Biddeford, ME

OHS convention: 1963

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

Images

1955 - Building exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Collections of McArthur Public Library, creator: Anastasoff Studio, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

ca. 1856 - Stereopticon card image of the transplanted Appleton in Biddeford (Photograph from an archival source: Maine Historical Society: Maine Memories, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
16 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 59 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Thomas Appleton (1840). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - G Compass organ. Built for Institute for the Blind, South Boston, MA (now, in 1997, Perkins Institute, Watertown, MA). Altered by E. & G. G. Hook. Moved to Shortridge residence, Phippsburg, ME in 1979. -Database Manager

2022-11-15 - The First Free Will Baptist Society, one of the two Baptist congregations in Biddeford, moved into this church on Jefferson Street in 1851. The building was heavily remodeled in 1899. The United Baptist congregation was formed by the union of the Free Will Society and the First Baptist Church of Biddeford in 1931. -- Information from McArthur Public Library Collections web page -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. (Stoplist: OH 1963:19) 1963

Biddeford, Maine
United Baptist Church

Thomas Appleton, 1840
E. & G. G. Hook, 1865 - Relocation


      GREAT (GGG-f3, 59 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana [TG]
[8']  St. Diapn Treble [TG]
[8']  St. Dia. Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal
[4']  Flute
[3']  Twelfth
[2']  Fifteenth
[III] Sesquialtra
[8']  Trumpet [TG]

      SWELL (Expressive; chest is TG, 35 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana
[8']  St. Diapn 
[4']  Principal
[III] Cornet
[8']  Hautboy 
      Tremulant

      SWELL BASS (Unenclosed; GGGG - TG, 24 notes)
[8']  St. Diapn Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal Bass (24 pipes)

      PEDAL (25 notes, CCC-C))
[16'] Subbass

      COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Pedal Coupler [notched]: first position is Sw-Ped; 
                         second position is Gt-Ped.

Great to Swell (Swell to Great)

      COMPOSITION FOOT TRUNDLES
Great Piano -

Great Forte -

      EXPRESSION FOOT TRUNDLES
Swell Expression       (hitch-down)

      ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal

      NOTES
Pedal compass altered late in the 19th century. Pedal compass originally
began on GGGG.
Sesquialtra: 17-19-22; 15-17-19; 8-12-15.
Cornet: 12-15-17

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