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Hook & Hastings Opus 1366 (1887)

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

Images

Unknown - Organ Case, Keydesk and Facade (From neworleanschurches.com, courtesy of Mr. J. Veerman (prior to Hurricane Katrina 2005)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
• Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
• 2 manuals
• 13 stops
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
• Manual compass: 58 notes
• Pedal compass: 27 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Partially restored by Redman 1974 as his Op. 9. Contains parts of Hook & Hastings Op. 1269 (1885), built for Christ Episcopal, Eau Claire, WI, but never installed there. -Database Manager

2008-08-11 - Updated with information from Rachelen Lien: Damaged by Hurricane Katrina; purchased from the church and removed; now in storage. -Database Manager

2013-03-02 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ and building damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Organ removed by Redman Organ Works, rebuilt and moved to Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Brookline, MA, in 2013. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: Roy Redman website, 2012-10-30) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

  Felicity Street Methodist-Episcopal Church
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  Hook & Hastings Co., Opus 1366, 1890
  OHS ID: 5205
_____________________________________________________________________________________
  GREAT                pipes    SWELL              pipes     PEDAL              pipes
8 Open Diapason...........58  8 Viola TC..............46  16 Bourdon...............27
8 Melodia TC..............46  8 Stopped Diapason TC...46     
8 Stopped Diapason Bass...12  8 Stopped Bass..........12     COUPLERS
8 Dulciana................46  4 Flute Harmonique......58     Swell to Pedal
4 Octave..................58  8 Oboe..................46     Great to Pedal
2 Fifteenth...............58  8 Bassoon...............12     Swell to Great
                                Tremolo
_____________________________________________________________________________________
[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-10-30]

Websites

• Pastorale - Piece by Lefebure-Wely. Performed by Donald Messer. Produced by The Organ Historical Society in 1989 with the title: Historic Organs of New Orleans: Seventeen Historic Pipe Organs, The Bayous to Natchez (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)
• Three Meditations on Wondrous Love - Piece by Ronald Perera. Performed by Donald Messer. Produced by The Organ Historical Society in 1989 with the title: Historic Organs of New Orleans: Seventeen Historic Pipe Organs, The Bayous to Natchez (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #8809†* - Roy A. Redman (Organ Co.) Opus 9 (1974)
• #51030 - Redman Pipe Organs (2013)

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