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Hook & Hastings Opus 1615 (1894)

First Congregational Church
Church Street
Rockland, MA

Images

Unknown - Organ case in front of church (Photograph from old church publication/Database Manager)

Unknown - Original keydesk attached to the face of the instrument (Photograph by unknown - from the estate of Lillian I Cunningham who played the instrument as a student. (1940's)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
20 stops
18 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)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Electrified by Kershaw before removal. [Still there 1965?] [Church previously had an E. L. Holbrook in earlier building.] -Database Manager

2008-09-17 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Pipe fence facade containing 31 pipes. The organ was electrified by Rostron Kershaw in 1962, and was still extant when I documented it on April 21, 1989. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Stoplist from James R. Stettner Source: Original Service of Dedication, September 12, 1894, pp.6 & 7 Date not recorded

Rockland, Massachusetts
First Congregational Church in Rockland

HOOK & HASTINGS, Opus 1615, 1894 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   8     Open Diapason              58          Swell to Pedal
   8     Melodia                    58          Great to Pedal
   8     Dulciana                   58
   4     Octave                     58          Swell to Great
   4     Flute d'Amour              58
   2-2/3 Twelfth                    58
   2     Fifteenth                  58       FOOT LEVERS (Unk if Labeled; Order Unk)
   8     Trumpet                    58          Great Piano – 8' Mel., 8' Dulc.

                                                Gr. to Ped. - Reversible
SWELL (Expressive)
   16    Bourdon Treble       (tc)  46          Great Forte – 8,8,8,4,4,2-2/3,2
   16    Bourdon Bass               12
   8     Open Diapason              58
   8     Stopped Diapason           58       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8     Salicional                 58          Swell Expression             (bal.)
   8     Æoline                     58
   4     Flute Harmonique           58
   4     Violina                    58
   8     Oboe                 (tc)  46
   8     Bassoon                    12
         Tremolo
                                             ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

PEDAL                                        VOICES: 18       STOPS: 20
   16    Bourdon                    27
   8     Open Diapason    [wood]    27       RANKS: 18        PIPES: 982


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased at the front of the room with an attached,
projecting keydesk having a folding cover which lifts to form a music rack. The
7-sectional pipe fence façade has 31 pipes arranged: 3-5-3-9-3-5-3.

The organ was electrified in 1962 by Rostron Kershaw of Lowell, Massachusetts with
some tonal changes in addition to mechanical changes.

Sources: Original Program of Dedication, September 12, 1894, pp. 6 & 7; extant,
         altered organ

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#36613 - Rostron Kershaw (1962)