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Hook & Hastings Opus 1340 (1887)

Christ Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church
Chestnut Street @ 43rd Street
Philadelphia, PA

OHS convention: 1996

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


Images


1995 - Facade and church interior (Photograph from an archival source: 1996 OHS Handbook, William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2009-06-26 - Updated through online information from George Nelson. -- Building damaged during severe thunder storm in 2004 when landmark stone tower and steeple fell through the sanctuary roof. Organ was not damaged, only dirtied. It was removed by Colin Walsh and later reinstalled. I do not know what work was done other than removal, cleaning & reinstallation. -Database Manager

2010-08-26 - Updated through online information from Adam F. Dieffenbach. -- This organ has not been reinstalled and is currently in storage in our shop in Collingdale. -Database Manager

2022-10-20 - The Great Op. Diap. 16' has six stopped wood basses; the Great 8' string, listed in the contract as a "Salicional , " is marked "Gamba" on the pipes, and the missing label on the stopknob would more properly read "Viola da Gamba"; the Flute d'Amour 4' is of stopped wood with bored stoppers and 22 open metal trebles; and the Mixture is 15-19-22. The Swell Quintadena 8' is of capped metal, as is the low octave of the Viola 8'; the Flauto Traverso 4' is an open wood melodia with 9 open metal trebles. -- *1996 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano


Stoplist

Source: 1996 OHS Handbook

GREAT (58 notes) Open Diapason 16 (58 pipes w&m), Open Diapason 8 (58 pipes m), Melodia 8 (58 pipes w), Salicional 8 (58 pipes m), Dulciana 8 (58 pipes m), Octave 4 (58 pipes m), Flute d'Amour 4 (58 pipes w&m), Twelfth 3 (58 pipes m), Fifteenth 2 (58 pipes m), Mixture III (174 pipes m), Trumpet 8 (58 pipes m)

SWELL (58 notes, enclosed) Bourdon (TC) 16 (46 pipes w), Sub Bass 16 (12 pipes w), Open Diapason 8 (58 pipes w&m), Stopped Diapason 8 (58 pipes w), Viola 8 (58 pipes m), Quintadena 8 (58 pipes m), Flauto Traverso 4 (58 pipes w&m), Violina 4 (58 pipes m), Flautino 2 (58 pipes m), Dolce Cornet III (174 pipes m), Cornopean 8 (58 pipes m), Oboe 8 (46 pipes m), Bassoon 8 (12 pipes m), Tremulant

PEDAL (27 notes) Open Diapason 16 (27 pipes w), Bourdon 16 (27 pipes w), Violoncello 8 (27 pipes m)

COUPLERS Swell to Great, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal

PEDAL MOVEMENTS (4 Unlabeled, double-acting combination pedals) Great piano, Great forte, Swell piano, Swell forte, Great to Pedal Reversible, Balanced Swell pedal, Register Crescendo (*see note below)

ADDITIONAL ITEMS Water Motor, Bellow's signal [sic], Wind indicator


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