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Hook & Hastings Opus 1583 (1893)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
Boston (East Boston), MA

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


Images


Ca 1890 - Exterior. Burned 1965 (Parish website/Andrew Scanlon)

Ca 1900 - Exterior. Burned 1965 (Church website/Andrew Scanlon)

Ca 1875 - Original interior (Church website/Andrew Scanlon)

Ca 1940 - Church interior (Church website/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2015-10-25 - An original installation. Identified by John Igoe, using information found in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -Database Manager

2024-07-19 - According to Sacred Heart Parish website, this building burned down in 1965. Instrument is not extant. -Andrew Scanlon


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from <i>The Organ</i>, January 1894 Date not recorded

East Boston, Massachusetts
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church

Hook & Hastings Co.   Opus 1583   1893   2 manuals, 24 stops, 28 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                       SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason                 16' Bourdon
      8' Open Diapason                  8' Open Diapason
      8' Viola da Gamba                 8' Salicional
      8' Dulciana                       8' Viola
      8' Melodia                        8' Stopped Diapason
      4' Octave                         4' Flute Harmonique
  2 2/3' Twelfth                        4' Violina
      2' Fifteenth                      2' Flautino
         Mixture III                       Dolce Cornet III
      8' Trumpet                        8' Cornopean
                                        8' Oboe (with Bassoon)
         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason
     16' Bourdon
      8' Violoncello

         PEDAL MOVEMENTS, ETC.
         F and P Combinations - Great
         F and P Combinations - Swell
         Great to Pedal (reversible)
         The usual couplers

         Console, extended and reversed with pneumatic action.
         Water Motor.


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-10-14]


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