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E. & G. G. Hook Opus 328 (1863)

Elm Street Congregational Church
31 Elm Street
Bucksport, ME

OHS convention: 1963, 1981, 1992


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2010-04-19 - Organ case in choir gallery (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2010-04-19 - Organ case in choir gallery (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

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Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Hitchdown Swell replaced by balanced Swell, and horizontal shades made vertical. Renovated by Andover 1963, #R-22, 2-14. Historic Organs Recital 27 Aug 1988. -Database Manager

2007-09-26 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional case with 17 pipes arranged: 5-7-5. Facade pipes once stenciled, now painted gold. Case likely once faux-grained. Now painted white. The Swell is essentially 39 notes with an unenclosed, 17-note 8' St. Diap'n Bass and 4' Principal Bass. -Database Manager

2009-06-27 - Updated through on-line information from Barbara Fenlason, Music Director. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

Elm Street Congregational, Bucksport, ME
1863 E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 328
(Stoplist: OH 1963:13)

Great (56 notes)
8' Open Diapason
8' Dulciana [TC]
8' Melodia [TC]
8' Stop'd Diapason Bass (12 pipes)
4' Principal
4' Flute à Cheminée [TC]
2 2/3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
8' Trumpet [TC]

Swell (Chest is Tenor F, 39 notes)
8' Open Diapason
8' Keraulophon
8' St'd Diapason
8' St. Diapason Bass (17 pipes)
4' Principal
4' Principal Bass (17 pipes)
8' Hautboy
Tremulant
(17-note bass chest is unenclosed)

Pedal (25 notes)
16' Double Open Diapason

Couplers
Great to Pedals
Swell to Pedals
Swell to Great

Bellows Signal

All ranks listed are full compass unless otherwise indicated.

Restored by Andover Organ Co. in 1963.

Stoplist from the 1992 <i>Organ Handbook</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Bucksport, Maine
Elm Street Congregational Church

E. & G.G. Hook, opus 328 (1863)

GREAT (C-g3, 56 notes)

  Open Diapason           8      Metal; 56 pipes
  Melodia                 8      From c1; wood; 44 pipes
  Stopped Diapason Bass   8      Wood; 12 pipes
  Dulciana                8      From c1; metal; 44 pipes
  Principal               4      Metal; 56 pipes
  Flute à Chiminée        4      From c1; metal; 44 pipes
  Twelfth                 2 2/3  Metal; 56 pipes
  Fifteenth               2      Metal; 56 pipes
  Trumpet                 8      From c1; metal; 44 pipes

SWELL (Enclosed; C-g3, 56)

  Open Diapason           8      From f1; metal; 39 pipes
  Keraulophon             8      From f1; metal; 39 pipes
  Stopped Diapason        8      From f1; wood & metal; 39 pipes
  Stopped Diapason Bass   8      Lowest 17 notes on separate windchest
                                 outside Swell box; wood; 37 pipes
  Principal               4      Lowest 17 notes on separate windchest
                                 outside Swell box; metal; 39 pipes
  Hautboy                 8      From f1; metal; 39 pipes
  Tremulant

PEDAL (25)

  Double Open Diapason   16      Wood; 25 pipes

COUPLERS

  Swell to Great          8
  Great to Pedal          8
  Swell to Pedal          8

Restoration by Andover, 1963
  

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