Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Co. Opus 1696 (1895)

St. Bridget's Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
1 Percival
Maynard, MA

Images

2021-09-03 - Church exterior (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Console: pedalboard, combination trundles, and expression shoe (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Left Stopjamb; Swell & Couplers (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Right Stopjamb: Great & Pedal (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Console (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Console; right profile (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Console; left profile (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Organ facade from left side (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

2021-09-03 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Cynthia Marr/Cynthia Marr)

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)
2 manuals
14 stops
15 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 trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Detached, reversed console. -Database Manager

2008-09-13 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Documented: April 25, 1989. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the console March 25, 1989

Maynard, Massachusetts
St. Briget's Roman Catholic Church

Hook & Hastings Co.   Opus 1696   1895    2 manuals, 14 stops, 14 ranks
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     GREAT ORGAN                             COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Gr.  16'  Bourdon          (TC)  46          Swell to Pedal
Gr.  8'   Open Diapason          58          Great to Pedal
Gr.  8'   Dulciana               58      
Gr.  8'   Melodia                58          Swell to Great
Gr.  4'   Octave                 58
Gr.  3'   Twelfth                58
Gr.  2'   Fifteenth              58          FOOT TRUNDLES (Unlabeled)
                                             Gr. Piano - 8' Mel., 8' Dulc. (d-a)

     SWELL ORGAN (Expressive)                Gr. Forte - 16,8,8,8,4,3,2   (full)
Sw.  8'   Viola                  58
Sw.  8'   Stop'd Diapason        58
Sw.  4'   Violina                58          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Sw.  4'   Flute Harmonique       58          Swell Expression             (bal.)
Sw.  8'   Oboe             (TC)  46
Sw.  8'   Bassoon                12
          Tremolo                            MECHANICALS
                                             Bellows Signal
                                             Ross Water Engine handle
     PEDAL ORGAN
Ped. 16'  Bourdon                27
Ped. 8'   Open Diapason          27


[Received from James R. Stettner 2017-11-28]