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E. & G. G. Hook Opus 283 (1860)

First Congregational Church
322 Main Street
Woburn, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
32 stops
38 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles
Has coupler trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt by (John D.?) Brennan in 1913. Rebuilt by George Bozeman in 1992. -Database Manager

2008-07-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Choir unexpressive behind Great. Swell overhead. Swell action passes between Great & Choir. Swell shutters are horizontal. The Pedal 16' Open Diapason is on a diatonic chest at the rear of the case with the tallest pipes at the outsides. The other three Pedal ranks are on chromatic slider chests at the sides with the tallest pipes at the rear. Many of the reed trebles are bell gamba trebles. The Pedal 8' Violoncello is a bell gamba. The Swell 16' Bourdon Bass is outside the swellbox. The organ was rebuilt with a few tonal modifications and some mechanical alterations by John D. Brennan of Reading, MA in 1913. -Database Manager

2014-05-01 - Updated through online information from Barbara Owen. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Taken from 1978 OHS Handbook June 1978

Woburn, Massachusetts
First Congregational Church

E.& G. G. Hook, Opus 283, 1860


GREAT (56 notes)
8'  Open Diapason 8'        56 pipes (17 display pipes)
8'  Melodia 8'              39 pipes
8'  Std Diapason Bass       17 pipes
4'  Principal 4'            56 pipes
2⅔' Twelfth                 56 pipes
2'  Fifteenth               56 pipes
II  Mixture 1⅓'            112 pipes
II  Sesquialtera ⅔'        112 pipes
8'  Trumpet Treble          44 pipes
8'  Trumpet Bass 8'         12 pipes

SWELL (Expressive - 56 notes)
16' Bourdon Treble          44 pipes
16' Bourdon Bass            12 pipes  Outside swellbox
8'  Open Diapason     (tc)  44 pipes
8'  Viol di Gamba     (tc)  44 pipes
8'  St'd Diapason Treble    44 pipes
8'  St'd Diapason Bass      12 pipes
4'  Principal               56 pipes
4'  Violin                  56 pipes
4'  Flute Harmonique        56 pipes
2'  Fifteenth               56 pipes
II  Dulciana Cornet 1⅗'    112 pipes
8'  Trumpet Treble          44 pipes
8'  Trumpet Bass            12 pipes
8   Oboe              (tc)  44 pipes
    Tremulant

CHOIR (56 notes)
16' Æolina            (tc)  44 pipes
8'  Open Diapason           56 pipes
8'  Dulciana                56 pipes
8'  Viola d'Amour     (tc)  44 pipes
8'  Clarabella        (tc)  44 pipes
8'  Std Diapason Treble     44 pipes
8'  Std Diapason Bass       12 pipes
4'  Flute a Chimnee         56 pipes
4'  Celestina               56 pipes
8'  Clarionet         (tc)  44 pipes

PEDAL (27 notes) (flat)
16' Dble Open Diapason      27 pipes
16' Dble Std Diapason       27 pipes
8'  Violoncello             27 pipes
16' Grand Possaune          27 pipes

COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Choir to Pedal

Swell the Great
Choir to Great sub 8va

Swell to Choir

Pedals at Octaves

FOOT TRUNDLES (added 1913?)
Swell Piano
Swell Forte
Great to Pedal Reversible
Great Piano
Great Forte

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression  (hitch-down)

ACCESSORIES 
Pedal Check
Bellows Signal

Websites

Music [church web site] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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