Hammond Street Congregational Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
28 High Street
Bangor, ME
Images
October 2015 - Pedal division during installation (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
October 2015 - Pedal division and loft viewed from pulpit during installation (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
October 2015 - Pedal 16' Dbl. Op. Diap. and Swell 8' St. Diap. awaiting installation (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
October 2015 - Swell 8' St. Diapason awaiting installation (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
October 2015 - Several Pedal 16' Trombone boots awaiting their block assemblies and wooden resonators during installation process (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
January 2016 - Case for E.&G.G. Hook Opus 159 now containing Opus 304. Pictured with partial facade pipework and new console in progress (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
March 2016 - Facade pipework awaiting installation (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
November 2016 - Console and bench (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
May 2018 - Right stopjamb (Great, Gt+Pd, Sw+Pd) (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
May 2018 - Left stopjamb (Swell, Pedal, Sw+Gt, Tremolo) (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
September 2019 - Case and choir loft (Glendon D Yule-Sweetland/Glendon D Yule-Sweetland)
Consoles
Keydesk
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 28 stops
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Manual compass: 56 notes
- Pedal compass: 27 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2017-11-17 - This is a new home for an organ that was altered when it was moved from another location.
Identified by James R. Stettner, who gave this as the source of the information: A printed article from the Bangor Daily News dated March 26, 2016; verification with related OHS Database entries.
This was the relocation and restoration of Hook opus 304, 1861 originally built for Eighth Methodist/Tremont Street Methodist (New Hope Baptist at time of removal) in Boston, Massachusetts, and installed inside the extant case of Hammond Street Congregational Church's original 1854 E. & G.G. Hook, Opus 159. -Database Manager
2024-10-01 - This church was originally home to E. & G.G. Hook, Opus 159, 1854. Sadly, in the 1960's they replaced the Hook with an electronic substitute with the speakers placed inside the retained 1854 Hook case. One parishioner - Waldo McClure “Mac” Libbey - was so distraught with the loss he left the parish and only showed-up once in a while. When he passed-away January 10, 2009, he left the parish $183,000.00 to acquire another pipe organ. If this was not accomplished within ten years, the funds would go to other charities.
Not long after learning of Libbey’s bequest, Pastor Doty of Hammond Street Congregational encountered Kevin Birch, who is Music Director at St. John Catholic Church in Bangor. St. John's has an 1861 Hook that has been restored and is part of an active concert series. Mr. Birch had learned of an available 1861 Hook organ in Boston, Opus 304, at New Hope Baptist Church (originally Eighth Methodist Church; then Tremont Street Methodist). The congregation was looking for a buyer for its Hook organ, and Birch helped connect Rev. Doty to that congregation.
The organ was purchased, removed by Vermont organ builder A. David Moore of North Pomfret, and restored. It was reinstalled inside the extant case of Hammond Street's 1854 Hook. The 1854 Hook had been a bit smaller, so the Pedal 16' Dble Dulciana had to borrow its bottom octave from the Great 8' Dble. Op. Diapason as there was insufficient height and room for the bottom twelve 16' pipes. The entire case also had to be moved away from the back wall about three feet to make room for the Pedal division. The pedalboard of the moved and restored 1861 Hook had also been 25-notes. The pedal compass was increased to 27 notes with the action extended, and all pedal ranks receiving two new pipes to complete the compass. Both the Great 8' Stopped Diapason and 4' Flute have 12 stopped wood basses and are then metal chimney flutes. The Great 4' Clarion is entirely new.
Sources: Photos of organ on Parish Facebook page; phone call with and email from A. David Moore in late November, 2017.
Original document from James R. Stettner, 2017-12-12. See DOCUMENTS tab -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
FOOT LEVERS: Sw. Piano - Sw. Forte - Gr. to Ped. - Gr. Piano - Gr. Forte Source: Typed stoplist
GREAT Dble Open Diapason 16, Open Diapason 8, Melodia 8, Gamba 8 (TC), Stopped Diapason 8 (12 stopped wood basses, then metal chimney flute), Dulciana 8, Principal 4, Flute 4 (12 stopped wood basses, then metal chimney flute), Twelfth 3, Fifteenth 2, Picolo [sic] 2, Mixture IV, Trumpet 8, Clarion 4 (New)
SWELL Bourdon 16, Open Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Principal 4, Keraulophon 8, Flute Harmonique 4, Flageolette 2, Trumpet 8, Cornet III, Oboe 8 (TC), Tremolo
PEDAL Dble Open Diapason 16, Dble Dulciana 16 (1-12 from Gt Dble Open Diapason), Violoncello 8, Trombone 16 (wood)
SWELL to GREAT 8, SWELL to PEDAL 8, GREAT to PEDAL 8
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