Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Co. Opus 1776 (1897)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front
85 N Main St.
Newport, NH

Images

2023-05-26 - Closed keydesk (Photograph by Nicholas Kleinschmidt/Nicholas Kleinschmidt)

2023-05-26 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Nicholas Kleinschmidt/Nicholas Kleinschmidt)

2023-05-26 - Left stop jamb (Photograph by Nicholas Kleinschmidt/Nicholas Kleinschmidt)

2023-05-26 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by Nicholas Kleinschmidt/Nicholas Kleinschmidt)

2023-05-26 - Keydesk top down showing manuals and pedals (Photograph by Nicholas Kleinschmidt/Nicholas Kleinschmidt)

2023-05-26 - Keydesk (Photograph by Nicholas Kleinschmidt/Nicholas Kleinschmidt)

2008-02-29 - Organ (Photograph by Len Levasseur/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
9 stops
9 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2023-05-27 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from 2023 keydesk photos May 27, 2023

Newport, New Hampshire
First Baptist Church

Hook & Hastings Co., Opus 1776, 1897


         GREAT:
Gr.  8'	 Open Diapason           61
Gr.  8'  Melodia                 61
Gr.  8'  Dulciana.               61
Gr.  4'  Octave.                 61


	 SWELL (Expressive):
Sw.  8'  Stopped Diapason        61
Sw.  8'  Salicional              61
Sw.  4'  Flute Harmonique        61
Sw.  8'  Oboe                    61
         Tremolo.


         PEDAL:
Ped. 16' Bourdon                 27


         COUPLERS (Drawknob):
Swell to Pedal.	                [8]
Great to Pedal.                 [8]

Swell to Great Unison           [8]
Sw. to Gr. Super 8ᵛᵅ            [4]


        PEDAL MOVEMENTS:
Swell Expression	     (bal.)


        ACCESSORIES
Blowers Signal.


[Submitted by James R. Stettner  May 27, 2023.]

Source: Taken from Console

GREAT 8' Open Diapason Gr., 8' Melodia Gr., 8' Dulciana. Gr., 4' Octave Gr.

SWELL (Expressive) 8' Stopped Diapason Sw., 8' Salicional Sw., 4' Flute Harmonique Sw., 8' Oboe Sw., Tremolo.

PEDAL 16' Bourdon Ped.

COUPLERS Swell to Pedal. ([8]), Great to Pedal. ([8]), Sw. to Gr. Unison ([8]), Sw. to Gr. Super 8va ([4])

PEDAL MOVEMENTS Swell Expression (bal.)

ACCESSORIES Blowers Signal.