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E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 925 (1878)

Village Church U.C.C.: Sanctuary
27 Cliff Street
Nahant, MA

OHS convention: 1987

Images

2014-06-09 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1987 - Organ in alcove at rear(?) (Photograph from an archival source: 1987 OHS Handbook, William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
15 stops
17 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: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles
Has coupler trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1987. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Pipework rescaled to lower pitch. Feeders & reservoir releathered by Andover. -Database Manager

2016-10-18 - Updated through online information from John Collins. <br>You can tell it is a tracker by the sound. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (July 1968) Date not recorded

Nahant, Massachusetts
Nahant Village Church

E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings   Opus 925   1878
2 manuals, 17 registers, 15 stops, 15 ranks
______________________________________________________________________

         GREAT ORGAN                      SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason       58        8' Open Diapason (TC)  46
      8' Dulciana            58        8' Viola (TC)          46
      8' Melodia             58        8' St'd Diapason (TC)  46
      4' Octave              58        8' St'd Diapason Bass  12
  2 2/3' Twelfth             58        4' Violina             58
      2' Fifteenth           58        4' Harmonic Flute      58
                                       8' Trumpet             58
         PEDAL ORGAN                   8' Oboe (TC)           46
     16' Open Diapason       27        8' Bassoon             12
     16' Bourdon             27

         MECHANICALS                      COUPLERS
         2 Great combination pedals       Swell to Great
         Great to Pedal reversible        Great to Pedal
         Swell Tremolo                    Swell to Pedal
         Bellows Signal
         Swell Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-30]

Approximate stop list from memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Village Church, Nahant, MA

This church is in a nice section of town by the water, and the architecture inside is 
unusual and quite beautiful at the same time. 

There are two organs, a big Hook & Hastings in the main church and a small Estey 
they use in this little chapel they use during the wintertime when they want to save 
on heating bills. 

I can't remember the Estey Specification very well but I think it had three to four stops 
on each manual and a pedal bourdon. I think Principle 8 and 4 and Dulciana on the 
Great, then maybe Stopped Diapason and Viola 8 on the Swell plus 4 harmonic flute 
and 8 oboe. 

But don't quote me on that.

The Hook and Hastings is the main organ they keep in good shape. 

Here is the stop list from memory.

Great. 

8 Diapason
8 Melodia
8 Dulciana
4 Principle
2 2/3 Twelfth
2 Fifteenth

Swell

8 Open Diapason (C or F)
8 Viola (F)
8 Stopped Diapason Treble
8 Stopped Diapason Base
4 Violin
4 Flute Harmonic
8 Trompete (full compass)
8 Oboe (C)
8 Basson (12 pipes)

Pedal

16 Open Diapason
16 Bourdon

Swell - Great
Swell - Pedal
Great - Pedal

Tremolo

(bellows signal?)

I also think there may have been some pre set combination pedals, but I'm not sure.

 [Received from Damian M. Schloming 2014-01-03.]