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Hook & Hastings Opus 1533 (1892)

First Congregational Church
329 Main Street
Yarmouth Port, MA

OHS convention: 1966

Images

2015 - Organ in front of sanctuary (Photograph from an archival source: Andover Organ Co. Fall Newsletter - 2015, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1890's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
11 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: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1976. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. The Hook list shows the city as Yarmouth Port. Rebuilt Andover 1976, 2-12. -Database Manager

2016-04-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. <br>This is a Hook Catalogue size Number 6, whose catalogue price is given as $1,500.00. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from Matthew M Bellocchio. Source: Andover Organ Company files 2017-04-04

Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
First Congregational Church

Hook & Hastings, Opus 1533, 1892 - Original Specifications

     GREAT
8’   Open Diapason
8’   Dulciana (TC)
8’   Melodia (TC)
8’   Stop’d Diapason Bass
4’   Octave

     SWELL (Expressive)
8’   Viola (TC)   
8’   Stop’d Diapason (TC)
8’   Stop’d Diapason Bass 
4’   Harmonic Flute
8’   Oboe (TC)
     Tremolo

     PEDAL
16’  Sub Bass

COUPLERS (drawknob)
Sw to Ped
Gr to Ped

Sw to Gr Unison
Sw to Gr 8ve

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression     (bal.)

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