Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G. G. Hook Opus 396 (1866)

First Presbyterian Church (Old South)
29 Federal Street
Newburyport, MA

OHS convention: 1987

Images

2010 - Detail of pedals (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Detail of pipe stencil (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2009-06-29 - Rear gallery and organ (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
22 stops
28 registers
3 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: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored by Andover 1974. (Owen lists as 25rk.) Two thunder pedals at bottom end of pedalboard. -Database Manager

2008-09-15 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Three-sectional facade with 23 stenciled pipes in 3 rounded arches arranged: 7-9-7. The organ cost $3,800 minus $700.00 for the existing 1888 Alley taken in trade. The organ was opened in a recital given by J.H. Willcox on Wed., October 17, 1866. The organ was restored by the Andover Organ Co. in 1973 as their opus R-173. The feeder are in storage, as is the inner of two sets of 9 horizontal Swell expression shutters. The restored organ was re-dedicated by Thomas Murray on December 15, 1974. Sources: extant organ documented April, 1988; Andover files; OHS 1987 Convention Handbook. -Database Manager

2013-10-29 - Updated through online information from Michael Martin. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (September 1966) Date not recorded

Newburyport, Massachusetts
First (Old South) Presbyterian Church

E. & G. G. Hook   Opus 396   1866   2 manuals, 28 registers, 22 stops, 23 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                           SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon Treble (TC)      44        8' Open Diapason (TC)       44
     16' Bourdon Bass             12        8' Æolina                   56
      8' Open Diapason            56        8' St. Diapason Treble (TC) 44
      8' Keraulophon Treble (TC)  44        8' St. Diapason Bass        12
      8' Keraulophon Bass         12        4' Violina                  56
      8' Viol da Gamba (TC)       44        4' Flauto Traverso          56
      8' Melodia (TC)             44        2' Piccolo                  56
      8' St. Diapason Bass        12        8' Oboe (TC)                44
      4' Octave                   56        8' Bassoon                  12
      4' Flute Harmonique         56        8' Clarionet (TC)           44
  2 2/3' Twelfth                  56           Tremulant
      2' Fifteenth                56
         Mixture II              112           PEDALE (compass: 25 notes)
      8' Trumpet Treble (TC)      44       16' Double Open Diapason     27 *
      8' Trumpet Bass             12       16' Double St. Diapason      25
      8' Krum Horn (TC)           44

         COUPLERS                              MECHANICALS
         Swell to Great                        Pedal Check
         Great to Pedale                       Bellows Signal
         Swell to Pedale

         PEDAL MOVEMENTS
         2 Great combination pedals
         Swell pedal

      *  At the left of the Pedal clavier are two small wooden pedals which
         operate AAAA# and BBBB of the 16' Open Diapason -- a very unusual
         contrivance probably installed for some special need of the organist
         in 1866.


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-28]