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Hook & Hastings Opus 1247 (1885)

Columbus Ave. A.M.E. Zion Church: Sanctuary
600 Columbus Avenue
Boston, 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
14 stops
15 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: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - [This opus number is on the Hook list for Temple Adath Israel, Boston, MA.] -Database Manager

2008-04-03 - Updated through on-line information from Don Olson. -- Great to Pedal reversible -Database Manager

2010-03-04 - Updated through on-line information from Richard W. Hill. -- Originally bought by Edward S. Goulston for Temple Adath Israel 1131 Tremont Street, Boston -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the keydesk May, 1988

Boston, Massachusetts
Columbus Ave. A.M.E. Zion Church

Hook & Hastings, Opus 1247, 1885 - Original Specifications

GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Drawknob)
  8  Op. Diap.                     58          Sw. to Ped.
  8  Melodia                       58          Gr. to Ped.
  8  Dulciana                      58
  4  Octave                        58          Sw. to Gr.
  3  Twelfth                       58
  2  Fifteenth                     58
  8  Trumpet                       58        FOOT TRUNDLES (Unlabeled; l – r)
                                               Great Piano – 8' Mel., 8' Dulc.

SWELL (Expressive)                             Gr. to Ped. - reversible
  8  St'd Diap.                    58
  8  Viola                         58          Great Forte – 8, 8, 8, 4, 3, 2.
  4  Harmonic Flute                58
  4  Violina                       58
  8  Oboe                    (tc)  46        PEDAL MOVEMENTS
  8  Bassoon                       12          Swell Expression             (bal.)
     Tremolo


PEDAL
  16 Bourdon                       27
  8  Flöte   [sic]                 27


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 14     STOPS: 15     RANKS: 14     PIPES: 750


NOTES





Sources: Hook & Hastings opus list; JRS; extant organ

Columbus Avenue AME Zion Church
600 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA. 02118
(617) 266-2758                               Documented: May, 1988


[Submitted by James R. Stettner September 25, 2020]

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