Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1144 (1883)

Holy Communion Episcopal Church
320 Broad Street
Lake Geneva, WI

OHS convention: 1990

Images

1990 - Organ case in corner (Photograph from an archival source: 1990 OHS Handbook, William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

November 10, 2019 - Manuals (Derek Nickels /Derek Nickels)

2019-11-10 - Left stopjamb (Derek Nickels /Derek Nickels)

2019-11-10 - Pedalboard (Derek Nickels /Derek Nickels)

2019-11-10 - Church interior (Derek Nickels /Derek Nickels)

October 2019 - Facade and keydesk (Derek Nickels /Derek Nickels)

October 2019 - Facade (Derek Nickels /Derek Nickels)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
13 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1990 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored with some tonal changes by Richard Crane 1961. -Database Manager

2012-09-27 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- According to "The Stopt Diapason," Engraved on the case above the manuals are the words "We Praise Thee * We Bless Thee * We Worship Thee." The original pumping handle is gone. An electric blower was added at an unknown date. -Database Manager

2019-06-06 - Rebuilt by John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organs. Being reinstalled in June 2019. (Source: "Historic pipe organ returns to Lake Geneva church" by Dennis Hines, (Racine Wisconsin <i>Journal Times</i>, June 2, 2019) online edition, https://journaltimes.com/lifestyles/historic-pipe-organ-returns-to-lake-geneva-church/article_784033dc-e92d-5299-8ece-22fea51becb6.html. -Database Manager

2021-10-25 - The Hook & Hastings organ was presented to the church on 12 June 1883 by Mrs. George Mary Delafield Sturges, in memory of her son. In August 1910, a "Water Engine and supplementary bellows for the organ were installed, $250 having been given therefor by the Sturges family." But by March 1912, "an electric blowing machine ... was installed, the water motor having frozen and burst. The cost of ... 'the Kinetic' was $175. Friends outside the parish gave $110 of that sum." -- from 1990 OHS HAndbook -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: The Stopt Diapason, October 1981) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

  Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion
  Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
  Hook & Hastings, Opus 1144, 1883
  OHS ID: 5035
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  GREAT             SWELL                                PEDAL
8 Open Diapason   8 Stopped Diapason Bass (12 pipes)  16 Bourdon
8 Melodia         8 Stopped Diapason                     Great to Pedal
8 Dulciana        8 Viola (not original label)           Swell to Pedal
4 Octave          4 Harmonic Flute
3 Twelfth *       8 Oboe Bass                            COMPOSITION PEDALS
2 Fifteenth       8 Oboe                               1 (L)Retires all Great stops 
  Swell to Great    Tremolo                              except Melodia and Dulciana.
                                                       2 (R)Brings on all Great stops.

* Changed to 19th in 1961, reverted to 12th in 2019

  Blower Signal (replaced with blower switch)
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-09-19]

Documents

(2019-06-02) Historic pipe organ returns to Lake Geneva church Local news article about the reinstallation of the restored instrument. -Paul R. Marchesano

Websites

Inspiration - Piece by Francis S. Moore. Performed by Susan R. Werner Friesen. Produced by The Organ Historical Society in 1990 with the title: Historic Organs of Milwaukee: Twenty-five Historic Pipe Organs, Madison to Milwaukee (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)