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Hook & Hastings Co. Opus 1801 (1898)

Winslow Congregational Church / Portuguese Baptist Church / Baptist Church of All Nations
Taunton, MA

Images

2000-02-22 - Chancel and Pipe Façade (Photograph by Stephan M. Reavis/Database Manager)

2000-02-22 - Pipes During Removal Process (Photograph by Stephan M. Reavis/Database Manager)

2000-02-22 - Keydesk (Photograph by Stephan M. Reavis/Database Manager)

1900-01-01 - Church exterior (Vintage post card, courtesy of Stephan Reavis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
33 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles
Has coupler trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Formerly Winslow Congregational. Damaged. -Database Manager

2011-11-02 - Updated through information from Stephan M. Reavis: -- The Church changed its name to The Baptist Church of All Nations in 1977. The organ was removed before the demolition of the church in 2000. Currently under restoration by J. Allen Farmer for installation in another location. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (May 1968) Date not recorded

Taunton, Massachusetts
Winslow Congregational Church

Hook & Hastings Co.   Opus 1801   1898          3 manuals, 33 stops, 37 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason           61       16' Bourdon Bass            12
      8' Open Diapason           61       16' Bourdon Treble (TC)     49
      8' Viola da Gamba          61        8' Open Diapason           61
      8' Viola                   61        8' Salicional              61
      8' Doppel Flöte            61        8' Voix Celeste            61
      4' Octave                  61        8' Æoline                  61
  2 2/3' Twelfth                 61        8' Stop'd Diapason         61
      2' Fifteenth               61        4' Violina                 61
         Mixture III            183        4' Flauto Traverso         61
      8' Trumpet                 61        2' Flautino                61
                                              Dolce Cornet III       183
         CHOIR ORGAN (unenclosed)          8' Cornopean               61
      8' Geigen Principal        61        8' Oboe                    61
      8' Dulciana                61        8' Vox Humana              61
      8' Melodia                 61           Tremolo
      4' Fugara                  61
      4' Flute d'Amour           61           PEDAL ORGAN
      2' Piccolo Harmonique      61       16' Open Diapason           30
      8' Clarinet (TC)           49       16' Bourdon                 30
                                           8' Violoncello             30

         COMBINATION PEDALS                   COUPLERS BY KNOBS
         Swell Piano                          Great to Pedal
         Swell Mezzo                          Swell to Pedal
         Swell Forte                          Choir to Pedal
         Great Piano
         Great Mezzo                          COUPLERS BY PISTONS
         Great Forte                          Swell to Great Unison
         Choir Piano                          Swell to Choir Unison
         Choir Forte                          Choir to Great Unison

         BALANCED PEDALS                      Great to Pedal reversible
         Grand Crescendo
         Swell Organ                          Water Motor pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-30]

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