Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1674 (1895)

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
14 St. Mary's Square
Taunton, MA

OHS convention: 2005

Images

2012-03-05 - Rear Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph by Andrew Januse/Database Manager)

2012-03-05 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Januse/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
39 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
SSOS
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1974 -Database Manager

2012-03-07 - Updated through online information from Andrew Januse. -- This instrument is the largest unaltered work of Hook & Hastings in New England. The organ is playable but it is dire need of a complete restoration. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console December 2011 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Taunton, MA 02780
Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church

Hook & Hastings Op. 1674 1895

Great  unenclosed, Man. II, CC-c4  Swell  enclosed, Man. III, CC-c4                 
16' Open Diapason    61 Pipes      16' Bourdon            61 Pipes
 8' Open Diapason    61 Pipes       8' Open Diapason      61 Pipes
 8' Doppel Floete    61 Pipes       8' Stop'd Diapason    61 Pipes
 8' Viola da Gamba   61 Pipes       8' Salicional         61 Pipes
 4' Octave           61 Pipes       8' Aeoline            61 Pipes
 4' Flute Harmonique 61 Pipes       4' Flauto Traverso    61 Pipes
 3' Twelfth          61 Pipes       4' Violina            61 Pipes
 2' Fifteenth        61 Pipes       2' Flautino           61 Pipes
 4  Rks. Mixture    244 Pipes       4  Rks. Dolce Cornet 244 Pipes
 8' Trumpet          61 Pipes       8' Cornopean          61 Pipes
                                    8' Oboe               61 Pipes
                                    8' Vox Humana         61 Pipes
                                       Tremolo

Choir  unenclosed, Man.I,CC-c4      Pedal  unenclosed, CC-f1
8' Geigen Principal  61 Pipes       16' Open Diapason     30 Pipes
8' Melodia           61 Pipes       16' Bourdon           30 Pipes
8' Dulciana          61 Pipes        8' Violoncello       30 Pipes
4' Flute d'Amour     61 Pipes
4' Fugara            61 Pipes
2' Piccolo           61 Pipes
8' Clarinet          61 Pipes 

Couplers                                             Pedal Movements
Great to Pedal                                       Great Forte
Swell to Pedal                                       Great Mezzo
Choir to Pedal                                       Great Piano
Swell to Great (On/Off piston in Swell key slip)     Swell Forte
Choir to Great (On/Off piston in Swell key slip)     Swell Mezzo
                                                     Swell Piano
                                                     
                                                     Bellows Signal (Drawknob)
        

 [Received from Andrew Januse 2012-03-05.]