Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1866 (1900)

Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Basilica: Conewago Chapel
30 Basilica Drive
Hanover: Edgegrove, PA

OHS convention: 2003

Images

2002-05-01 - Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph courtesy of William T. Van Pelt/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
10 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Curved Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1993 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Also known as Conewago Chapel. Became a basilica in 1962. Restored by Brunner & Heller 1983. -Database Manager

2010-05-16 - Updated through online information from Jody Richter. -Database Manager

2010-06-02 - Updated through online information from Jeff Shaull. -Database Manager

2012-10-09 - An original installation. Identified by T. Daniel Hancock, using information from this web site: http://www.harrisburgago.com/AreaOrgans/ConewagoChapel/ConewagoChapelSpecs.HTM. -Database Manager

2012-12-12 - Updated through online information from Evan Brickner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church,  Edge Grove (P. O. Hanover), Pennsylvania
1900 Hook & Hastings, Op. 1866

GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Viola da Gamba
8' Doppel Floete
4' Octave

SWELL
8' Salicional
8' Violin Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Flute Harmonique
8' Trumpet (tc)
Tremolo

PEDAL
16' Open Diapason

"The organ is now in first class condition with a new Swiss silent blower, and sounds like a great 
cathedral organ as it speaks down through the nave from its lofty position in the center of the west 
gallery."


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Websites

Conewago Chapel, Hook & Hastings Organ Specifications [Harrisburg AGO site] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)