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Hook & Hastings Opus 1751 (1897)

St. Louis Roman Catholic Church
Webster, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

ca. 1920's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, 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
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 - In rear gallery. Purchased by Andover in 1971. Moved to Pilgrim Congregational, Lexington, MA by Andover (via OCH) and altered in 1973. -Database Manager

2014-07-03 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from Andover Organ Co. files; and the relocated organ Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Webster, Massachusetts
St. Louis R.C. Church

HOOK & HASTINGS, Opus 1751, 1897 - 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
   2  Fifteenth                     58

                                             FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l - r)
SWELL (Expressive)                              Gr. Piano – 8' Mel., 8' Dulc.
   16 Bourdon                 (tc)  46
   8  Stop'd Diapason               58          Gr. Forte – 8,8,8,4,2        (full)
   8  Viola                         58
   4  Flute Harmonique              58
   4  Violina                       58       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   II Cornet     [12-15]           116          Swell Expression             (bal.)
   8  Oboe                    (tc)  46
   8  Bassoon                       12
      Tremolo
                                             ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

PEDAL                                        VOICES: 14         STOPS: 15
   16  Bourdon                      27
   8   Principal                    27       RANKS: 15          PIPES: 796


NOTES
The organ was free-standing and encased in the rear gallery with an attached, projecting
keydesk. Stops were as drawknobs in terraced jambs on either side of the keydesk. The pipe
fence façade has 31 pipes that give the appearance of being 5-sectional by virtue of their
arrangement as: 5 - 8 - 5 – 8 – 5.

The organ was later removed and rebuilt in 1972 by the Andover Organ Co. of Methuen, Mass.
with tonal changes for Pilgrim Congregational Church in Lexington, Mass.

Sources: Andover Organ Co. files; extant, altered organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-07-03.]

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#9350 - Andover Organ Co. Opus R-149 (1973)