OHS convention: 2016
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Detached, reversed console. Unused. Damaged when ceiling collapsed in June 1995. Restored 1998 by Guilbault-Th?rien. Most pipework restored. Replicas made of unrepairable ones. -Database Manager
2009-01-29 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The organ is currently for sale. -Database Manager
2012-10-02 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The Organ Clearing House website notes (2012-10-01) that there are 37 facade pipes console is 61" wide and 70" deep, pitch is A=435, wind pressure is 3.11", there is a new Ventus blower in a silencing cabinet (30" square), the original double rise bellows have been completely restored (1998) including hand pump and feeders, all manual key action completely renewed/restored (1998) with new leather nuts, bushing and fiber links, all pipework cleaned and restored (1998) with original cone and scroll tuning intact, tuning collars installed for mixture, all stoppers have been repacked, all wood pipes finishes have been resealed, keyboards have original ivory, pedalboard has been recovered, bench has added backrest, all windlines have been regasketed and resealed, original finish has been restored on casework, all framing and supports have been cleaned, sealed, and restored, slider windchests appear to have original tables, and pallet leather condition is unknown. Case dimensions are 21'-3" high to tallest facade pipe (top of swell box is 19'-6"), 17'-6" wide, and 9'-0" deep. Restored in 1998 by Guy Therien of Guilbault-Therien. -Database Manager
2020-10-14 - **Database Manager on October 16, 2017:** "Messrs. Hook & Hastings, of Boston, have just completed an organ in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. The instrument is built upon very large scales, containing ten stops in the great, eight in the swell, and two in the pedal, and has reversed action and is blown by a water-motor." *The Organ*, June 1892 -Jim Stettner
Typed stoplist (Source: Organ Clearing House website, 2012-10-01) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Holy Trinity R.C. Church
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hook & Hastings, Opus 1524, 1892
OHS ID: 5338
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GREAT (58 notes) SWELL (58 notes) PEDAL (30 notes)
16 Subbass (1-12) 8 Open Diapason 16 Open Diapason
16 Bourdon (13-58) 8 Stopped Diapason 16 Bourdon
8 Open Diapason 8 Salicional
8 Doppel Flute 4 Flute Harmonic COUPLERS
8 Viola de Gamba 4 Violina Swell to Great
4 Octave 2 Flautino Great to Pedal
2-2/3 Twelfth 8 Bassoon (1-12) Swell to Pedal
2 Fifteenth 8 Oboe
Mixture IV Tremulant (13-58) COMPOSITION PEDALS
8 Trumpet Great to Pedal Reversible
Great Forte
Great Piano
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