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Hook & Hastings (1929)

St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church
Maynard, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
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: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - [This opus number on the Hook list for the Baptist Church, Scotch Plains, NJ (2-16s).] -Database Manager

2016-09-03 - Updated through online information from Andrew Hagberg.<br> Organ is removed to storage awaiting restoration and reinstallation in a church in Greenville, New Hampshire. -Database Manager

2018-04-23 - Originally built in 1871 for the Baptist Church in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. In 1928, Hook & Hastings installed a new, larger instrument (Op. 2556) and took the old E. & G.G. Hook organ in trade. The following year, Hook & Hastings installed the organ in St. Casimir's Catholic Church in Maynard, Massachusetts. St. Casimir-s was closed in 1999 and the building sold in 2003 to a congregation which did not use the organ. Andover Organ Co. removed the organ to their shop for restoration as Opus R-521, and installed it in the Greenville Community Church, Greenville, New Hampshire. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Specification Source: from Andover Organ Co. Newsletter 2017 Date not recorded

Maynard, Massachusetts
St. Casimir Roman Catholic Church

E. & G. G. Hook    Opus 588     1871   "Size No. 6"   2 manuals, 9 stops, 9 ranks
Originally built for Baptist Church, Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Relocated by Hook & Hastings    1929
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         I. MANUALE                               II. MANUALE
      8' Open Diapason          58             8' Viola (TC)             46
      8' Dulciana (TC)          46             8' Unison Bass            12
      8' Unison Bass            12             8' Stopped Diapason (TC)  46
      8' Melodia (TC)           46             4' Flute                  58
      4' Octave                 58             8' Oboe (TC)              46

         PEDALE
     16' Sub Bass               27

         COUPLERS, ETC.
         Manuale Coupler
         I. Manuale to Pedale, Coupler
         II. Manuale to Pedale, Coupler
         Tremulant
         Bellows Signal

         Swell Pedal
         Bellows Pedal for light playing


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-04-23]

Typed stoplist (Source: Organ Clearing House website, 2004-11-19) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

      St. Casimir R.C. Church
      Maynard, Massachusetts
      E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings, Opus 588, 1871
      OHS ID: 6862
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      GREAT (56 notes)   SWELL (56 notes)
    8 Open Diapason    8 Stopped Diapason
    8 Melodia          8 Stopped Diapason Bass
    8 Dulciana         8 Viola
    4 Octave           4 Flute
                       8 Oboe TC
      PEDAL              Tremolo
   16 Bourdon 
                         COUPLERS
      Blank knob         Swell to Great
      (probably bellows  Great to Pedal
      signal)            Swell to Pedal                        
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-09-12]

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