Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 635 (1872)

First Baptist Church
8 Lafayette Street
Wakefield, MA

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

Images

2018-06-11 - Swell Shoe (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Database Manager)

2018-06-11 - Facade Pipes (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Database Manager)

2018-06-11 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Database Manager)

2018-06-11 - Builder Nameplate (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Database Manager)

2018-06-11 - Coupler & Combination Pedals (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
19 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - 10/89 from stop list. -Database Manager

2007-06-19 - Updated through online information from Jeffrey H Smith. -- Magnificently maintained, completely un- "improved." -Database Manager

2018-10-26 - The church and organ were totally destroyed by fire October 23, 2018. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from John Bishop Date not recorded

Wakefield, Massachusetts
First Baptist Church

E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings   Opus 635   1872
2 manuals, 18 stops, 20 ranks
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             GREAT ORGAN
         16' Bourdun             58
          8' Open Diapason       58
          8' Dulciana            58
          8' Melodia             58
          4' Octave              58
          3' Twelfth             58
          2' Fifteenth           58
             Mixture, 3 ranks   174
          8' Trumpet             58

             SWELL ORGAN
          8' Open Diapason       46 *
          8' Viola               58
          8' Std. Diapason       58
          4' Flauto Traverso     58
          4' Violina             58
          2' Flautina            58
          8' Bassoon             12
          8' Oboe (TC)           46
          *  1-12 grooved to Std. Diapason

             PEDAL ORGAN
         16' Open Diapason       27
         16' Bourdon             27

             Tremolo
             Bellows Signal
             Manual Coupler
             Great to Pedal
             Swell to Pedal
             Swell Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-06-22]