Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2023-06-05 - Information provided by Bruce Brewer via Historic Organ Certification application: The Instrument is of one (1) manual with a 58 note compass, and a 27 note pedal board with balanced swell shades behind the display façade. The instrument is the second smallest made by the E&GG Hook & Hastings company, it has one 8’ Open Diapason, and one 8’ Dulciana, both of which are full compass. The pedal is effected solely via pull-down mechanism connecting to the Manual. The Dulciana is entirely located within the swell-box, with the low-12 pipes being zinc, with wooden stoppers (the very low “C” is co-located on the Diapason slider, being tubed to the Dulciana low “C” slider). The next 37 pipes are scroll tuned, and the final nine are cone tuned. The 8’ Diapason is full compass with pipes 1 – 13 incorporated in the casework Display. It is assumed that the instrument was purchased either for a home, or (possibly) the chapel for a convent. The lowest pipes have been modified from the original instrument height via mitering over the swell-box, and thence down behind the swell box . It is believed this modification was effected at the Hook & Hastings factory based on final installation characteristics, as the pipes have been cut to a consistent length, and from the rear of the pipe, a hole was cut in each façade pipe just below the swell box and mitered through this hole in the pipe and across the swell box where they were again mitered to be straight along the rear of the swell box providing a consistent pipe view from the side/front of the display. The organ is not in its original location. The instrument was removed in June 2004 from the chapel of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary Convent, adjoining Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church in West Warwick Rhode Island. The address of which was #10 Washington Street, West Warwick, RI in June 2004. The order was active from 1878 until 1998, when the school was staffed by lay teachers. According to Brian Richards, the present convent school was constructed n 1933 replacing the 1878 school Inside the Swell-box is an inscription “H.I. Greene, River Pointe, RI”. Also, “Clyde S.R.R.”. River Point is located within a mile or two from West Warwick, RI. -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: Bruce Brewer, Application for Historic Organ Citation,
Manual (58 notes) Open Diapason 8 (58 pipes, 1 – 13 in façade), Dulciana 8 (58 pipes, 1-12 zinc, next 37 pipes scroll tuned, final 9 cone tuned)
Regrettably, it is not possible to display the information about the sponsor of this pipeorgandatabase entry or if there is a sponsor. Please see About Sponsors on Pipe Organ Database.