2004-10-30 - The original builder was E. & G. G. Hook (1870, Opus538). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - [Built for Centenary Methodist, S. Boston, MA.] Relocated through OCH from Our Savior Methodist Church, South Boston. Altered as Bozeman-Gibson Op. 1, 2-21. [Church had 1857 Hook Op. 213, 1-10st; 1877 George Ryder Op. 69; and 1907 Austin Op. 184, 2-22st.] -Database Manager
2022-11-06 - In 1970, George Bozeman, then an employee of the Noack Organ Co., played a concert on the E. & G.G. Hook organ in the Our Savior Methodist Church in South Boston, the organ's second home (the first being Centennary Methodist also in South Boston), in honor of it's 100th anniversary. The church was closing and this was to be a farewell concert as well as an anniversary observance. Lois Regestein, organist at the United Parish in Auburndale, learned of the organ's pending fate at the concert, and she and George agreed to purchase the organ after the concert. Immediate removal was imperative so it wouldn't be destroyed, and several local builders including Charles Fisk and Barbara Owen volunteered to help with the removal. The organ parts were stored in several locations in and around Boston while the Auburndale church deliberated about the fate of its failing 1907 Austin-Frazee. Following a presentation to the congregation, they voted to acquire the Hook organ for the cost of its removal ($625) and to hire George Bozeman and David Gibson to sympathetically restore the organ as their Opus 1, with several judicious tonal additions. At the time, they pair had purchased the former Ronstron Kershaw organ shop in Lowell, and this was the first of several instruments to issue from that shop before they sold it to Phillip Beaudry, and moved to Deerfield, New Hampshire where they opened a solar-heated shop in a renovated barn. On Sunday, October 30, 2022, Lois Regestein and George Bozeman, along with former church music director Thomas Allen LeVines played a concert in honor of the organ's 150th anniversary. They performed music by Marchand, LeVines, and Bach. The organ was installed in a fully carpeted acoustic. At some point more recently, perhaps 10-15 years ago, the interior was refurbished and the carpeted floor was replaced with oak. While the acoustic didn't gain any appreciable reverb time, the is a sense of space, no longer sounding like a Kleenex box, and the organ's ensemble got noticeably brighter. -Scot Huntington
Source: From 50th anniversary concert program October 30, 2022
Bozeman-Gibson (Opus 1, 1971)
rb. E. & G.G. Hook No.538, 1870
Congregational Church
Auburndale, Mass.
Compasses: 58/27
* stops added in 1971
GREAT SWELL
Bourdon [t.c.] 16 ft. Sw. Op. Diap. 8 ft. [t.c.]
Op. Diap. 8 ft. Sw. Keraulophon 8 ft. [t.c.]
Dulciana [t.c.] 8 ft. Sw. St. Diap. Treble 8 ft. [t.c.]
Melodia [t.c.] 8 ft. Sw. St. Diap. Bass 8 ft.
St. Diap. Bass 8 ft. Sw. Violina 4 ft.
Octave 4 ft. Sw. Harmonic Flute 4 ft.
Twelfth 2 2/3 ft. Sw. Fifteenth* 2 ft.
Fifteenth 2 ft. Sw. Oboe 8 ft. [orig. T&B]
Seventeeth* 1 3/5 ft.
Mixture 3 Rks.
Trumpet 8 ft.
PEDALE** MECHANICALS
Ped. Bourdon 16 ft. Swell to Great
Ped. Violoncello* 8 ft. Great to Pedale
Ped. Flute* 4 ft. Swell to Pedale
Ped. Trombone* 16 ft. Tremulant [Sw.]
[Bellows Signal knob used for additions]
Two single-acting combination pedals
for the Great: Forte, Piano
** The original Pedal Double Diapason 16' would not fit in Auburndale and was recycled elsewhere.
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