St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
2-4 Allen Street [now 68 William Cardinal O'Connell Way]
Boston, MA
Images
2020-12-27 - Great pipework (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Organ case in balcony (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Left side of case with facade pipes (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Console and organ case (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Pedalboard, swell/crescendo pedals and combination levers (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Left stop jamb (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2020-01-03 - Console (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
1999-05-04 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
1999-05-04 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2013-08-11 - Balcony and Organ Case (Photograph by Leonardo Ciampa/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 28 stops
- 45 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- 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 (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Retrackerized by Hawkes Organ Co., 1992-93. Originally tracker. Slider chests given tubular action 1899 as Hook & Hastings, Op.1829. Electified 1920. -Database Manager
2012-03-12 - Updated through online information from WIlliam Catanesye. -Database Manager
2014-02-06 - Updated through online information from Richard Pelland. -Database Manager
2022-06-12 - 1854: The Congregation moved to the first floor of the Organ factory at North Grove and Cambridge Street.
1862: Under Bishop Fitzpatrick, Fr. Williams, the Administrator, purchased this building with organ for $27,000. The Unitarian Congregation contested this sale. The Courts upheld the sale.
-- Information from church history web page, accessed 2022-06-12
Unclear what organ factory -- was this the earlier location of Hook & Hastings? -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Stoplist taken from the console; March 8, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Boston, Massachusetts
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Hook and Hastings Opus 1168, 1883
GREAT:
16' Open Diapason 58 pipes 1-7 stopped wood
8' Open Diapason 58 pipes
8' Melodia 58 pipes
8' Gamba 58 pipes
8' Doppel Flöte 58 pipes
8' Dulciana 58 pipes
4' Octave 58 pipes
4' Flute d'Amour 58 pipes
3' Twelfth 58 pipes
2' Fifteenth 58 pipes
III? Mixture 174 pipes?
8' Trumpet 58 pipes
Swell to Great
5 mechanical composition pedals affecting Great stops
SWELL: Enclosed
16' Bourdon 58 pipes
8' Open Diapason 58 pipes
8' Viola 58 pipes
8' Stopped Diapason 58 pipes
8' Quintadena 58 pipes
4' Octave 58 pipes
4' Violina 58 pipes
4' Flauto Traverso 58 pipes
2' Flautino 58 pipes
III Dolce Cornet 174 pipes
8' Cornopean 58 pipes
8' Oboe 58 pipes
Tremulant Affects the Swell stops only
5 mechanical composition pedals affecting Swell stops
PEDAL:
16' Open Diapason 27 pipes
16' Bourdon 27 pipes
8' Violoncello 27 pipes
16' Trombone 27 pipes
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Mechanical key action Floating
Electro-pneumatic stop action
Balanced Swell pedal Right pedal (reversed)
Crescendo Pedal Left pedal (reversed)
Wind Indicator horizontal on nameboard
Crescendo Indicator horizontal on nameboard
While the casework is unmistakably Hook and Hastings, the case is quite compact for an instrument of
this size. The organ is in excellent condition and is regularly and carefully maintained.
[Received from William Catanesye 2012-03-12.]
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