Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G. G. Hook Opus 253 (1859)

First Baptist Church
649 Center Street
Boston: Jamaica Plain, MA

OHS convention: 1961, 2000

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

Images

1999-05-04 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
25 stops
28 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes

Notes

2005-01-21 - The organ was destroyed when the building burned January 18, 2005. -Database Manager

2018-05-07 - Church and organ burned January 18, 2005. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (January 1967) Date not recorded

Jamaica Plain (Boston), Massachusetts
First Baptist Church

E. & G. G. Hook   Opus 253   1859              3 manuals, 25 stops, 28 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                        SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason           56     16' Bourdon (TC)            44
      8' Clarabella (TF)         39      8' Open Diapason (TC)      44
      8' Std. Diapason Bass      17      8' Viol di Gamba (TC)      44
      4' Principal               56      8' Std. Diapason (TC)      44
  2 2/3' Twelfth                 56      8' Std. Diapason Bass      12
      2' Fifteenth               56      4' Principal (TC)          44
         Sesquialtera II        112      2' Fifteenth (TC)          44
         Mixture II             112         Dulciana Cornet II (TC) 88
      8' Trumpet                 56      8' Trumpet (TC)            44
                                         8' Hautboy (TC)            44
         CHOIR ORGAN                        Tremulant
      8' Bell Gamba              56
      8' Dulciana                56         PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Std. Diapason Treble    44     16' Sub Bass                25
      8' Std. Diapason Bass      12     16' Dble. Std. Diapason     25
      4' Celestina               56
      4' Flute a Chimnie [sic]   56
      8' Clarionet (TC)          44

         MECHANICALS                        COUPLERS
         2 Combination Pedals - Great *     Swell to Great
         Pedal Check                        Swell to Choir
         Bellows Signal                     Choir to Great Sub 8ves.
         Great to Pedal Reversible *        Great to Pedal
         Swell Pedal                        Choir to Pedal
         * not original


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-29]