2013-08-17 - Case front (Photograph by George Bozeman/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - [This opus number on the Hook list for College Chapel, Hanover, NH (2-19s).] Altered Andover 1969, 2-17, #R-109. -Database Manager
2013-08-21 - Updated through online information from George Bozeman. -Database Manager
2013-09-10 - Updated through online information from George Bozeman. -- Finally got inside Swell box 7 September 2013 and the reed stop is indeed an original Trumpet with cut-to-length zinc resonators. with 35 reed pipes (i.e. all the way to f3. This jibes with the stopface which says 'Trumpet' and matches the other faces. -Database Manager
stoplist taken from the console 17 August 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Franklin NH United Methodist Church E. & G. G. Hook, 1852, Opus 138 Originally in the College Chapel, Hanover NH, where it was replaced by George S. Hutchings 1887 Opus 165. Moved to Franklin 1887 Alterations by Andover in 1969 Pedalboard replaced with a flat 27 note pedalboard, and 15 new pipes added to original 12 to complete the compass of the new pedalboard. All metal pipes fitted with aluminum tuning slides. Current pitch ca. 438 Hz. Great Bell Gamba replaced with a new Mixture III Swell String replaced with a 1 1/3' Quint Great Flute 4' 1-20 probably added by Andover Horizontal swell shades retained but now operated by a balanced pedal. 1852 stoplist: Great: 54 notes Open Diapason 8', 54 pipes, 17 speaking in facade, lowest note in facade is G. Melodia 8', 35 pipes, tenor g Dulciana 8' 35 pipes, tenor g Stopped Diap. Bass 8', 19 pipes Principal 4', 54 pipes Flute 4', probably 35 pipes, tenor g, low 19 pipes probably added by Andover Twelfth 2 2/3', 54 pipes Fifteenth 2', 54 pipes Bell Gamba (Viola d’Amour?) 8' probably 35 pipes, tenor g, replaced with a Mixture III, 162 pipes by Andover Swell: 54 notes, 1-19 on separate chest outside Swell box Open Diapason 8', 35 pipes, tenor g Stopped Diapason 8', 35 pipes, tenor g Stopped Diap. Bass 8', 19 pipes Principal 4', 35 pipes, tenor g Hautboy 8', 35 pipes, tenor g, (knob says Trumpet) Viola de Gamba? 8', 35 pipes, tenor g, replaced with a Larigot 1 1/3', 35 pipes, tenor g, by Andover Tremolo Pedal: 12 notes?, extended to 27 by Andover Sub Bass 16', 12 pipes, 15 pipes added by Andover Couplers: Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Bellows signal [Received from George Bozeman 2013-08-23.]
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