Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1297 (1886)

United (Congregational)
Conway, MA

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

Images

Unknown - Organ case in front of church (Photograph by A. David Moore/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
10 stops
12 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: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Was First Congregational. Original stenciling on front pipes. Unaltered. Original builders' Warranty and Instructions for care of the organ are glued to the backside of the case panels -Database Manager

2019-05-28 - Online update from James R. Stettner: the organ was removed after a February 2017 tornado damaged the church beyond repair. It is in storage with A. David Moore, and is available for sale. The specification and a photo were posted to Facebook Pipe Organ Garage Sale on May 28, 2019. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Conway Congregational (United) Church
Conway, Massachusetts

Hook & Hastings, Op. 1297, 1886 - Original Specifications
(Stoplist: William Baker 1998)

GREAT (Manual I)                             COUPLERS (Drawknob) 
   8'  Open Diapason (1-17 facade)  58          Swell to Pedal 
   8'  Dulciana               (tc)  46          Great to Pedal
   8'  Melodia                (tc)  46
   8'  Unison Bass                  12          Swell to Great  
   4'  Octave                       58          Swell to Great 8ves 4'

SWELL (Manual II - Expressive) 
   8'   Viola                 (tc)  46 
   8'   Stopped Diapason      (tc)  46          ACTION: Mech. key & stop
   8'   Stopped Bass                12
   4'   Flute    [Harmonic]         58          STOPS: 10
   4'   Violina                     58
   8'   Oboe                  (tc)  46          REGISTERS: 12
        Tremulant
                                                RANKS: 10
PEDAL 
16'   Bourdon (at sides)            30          PIPES: 516


[from builders' warranty, etc., inside panel over the console]
Manuals CC1 - A58   Pedals CC1 - F30
Console is projecting w/terraces and flat-faced knobs
Pitch is quite sharp of A=440. Swell and Great are on the same level.
Manual windchests are chromatic, Pedal diatonic.
Facade and Pedal C and C# sides are reversed, i.e., C-side to the right,
   facing the organ.