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Hook & Hastings Opus 1064 (1882)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
22 Cottage Street
West Fitchburg, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
9 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

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1991. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt Hawkes 1991, 2-14. Recital program 10-18-91. -Database Manager

2005-08-23 - On-line update from Judith A. Ollikkala -- Extant 2005, condition good. -Database Manager

2008-07-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Documented: October 4, 1989. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stop lists from organ dedication program of 1991 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Sacred Heart Catholic Church

E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings, Boston, Massachusetts
Opus 1064    1882
Original Stop List

Great
8´ Open Diapason            (58 pipes)
8´ Melodia                  (58 pipes)
8´ Dulciana (from Tenor C)  (46 pipes)
4´ Octave                   (58 pipes)

Swell
8´ Stopped Diapason         (58 pipes)
8´ Viola (from Tenor C)     (46 pipes)
4´ Flute                    (58 pipes)
8´ Oboe (from Tenor C)      (46 pipes)

Pedal
16´ Sub Bass                (27 pipes)

Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell to Great octave coupler

Tremolo
Bellows Signal

Restored and Tonally Revised by Hawkes Organ Co., Saugus, Massachusetts in 1991
Remained tracker action

New Stop List
Great
8´ Open Diapason                (58 pipes)
8´ Melodia                      (58 pipes)
4´ Octave                       (58 pipes)
IV Rk Mixture  1 1/3´, 1´, 2/3´, 1/2´   (232 pipes)
8´ Trumpet                      (58 pipes)

Swell
8´ Stopped Diapason           (58 pipes)
8´ Viola (from Tenor C)       (46 pipes)
4´ Flute                      (58 pipes)
2´ Fifteenth                  (58 pipes)
II Rk Sesquialtera  2 2/3´, 1 3/5´   (92 pipes)
8´ Oboe                       (58 pipes)

Pedal
16´ Sub Bass                  (27 pipes)
8´ Octave                     (27 pipes)
16´ Trombone                  (27 pipes)

Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell to Great octave coupler

Tremolo
Bellows Signal
             


 



 [Received from Lucy Dechene 2013-08-28.]

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