Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1744 (1897)

Masonic Temple (Star of the East): Main lodge room
Water St.
Exeter, NH

Images

2012-10-20 - Platform and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Jim Lewis/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
12 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2012-10-21 - Updated through online information from Jim Lewis. -Database Manager

2014-12-08 - Updated through online information from Richard Gress. -- Wind supply has been electrified and can no longer be hand pumped. Currently the organ is maintained by the Andover Organ Company. -Database Manager

Stoplist

stoplist from console Oct. 20, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Exeter, New Hampshire
Masonic Temple

Hook & Hastings
Opus #1744,  1897
Compass  61/27

Great:
8   Open Diapason
8   Dulciana
4   Octave
Swell to Great Unison
Swell to Great Octaves

Swell:
8   Gedackt
8   Salicional
8   Unison Bass
4   Flute Harmonique

Pedal:
16  Sub Bass
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

Motor Switch

 [Received from Jim Lewis 2012-10-21.]