Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 946 (1879)

St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church
Union and Merrimack Streets
Manchester, NH

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

Images

May 2007 - Altar/chancel (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Keyboards and builder's etched nameplate. (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Console with lid closed (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Case and console. Shows console built into case and slightly sunken into what must have been a raised gallery floor. (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Side view of organ case showing facade and wood pipes built into side (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Organ gallery from floor of nave showing empty church with almost all furniture removed (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

May 2007 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
23 stops
22 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 coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1983 -Database Manager

2007-07-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Free-standing and encased in the rear gallery in a five-sectional case with 25 pipes arranged: 7-2-7-2-7. The two sections of two pipes each are wooden. Wooden Pedal pipes form sides of case - either 16' Bourdon or 16' Open Diapason. Some non-original stopknobs/labels present. At least some of the metal pipework has been slide-tuned since the original installation. Great Piano and Forte foot trundles, plus Gt. to Ped. Reversible. Organ Clearing House lists it for sale, probably due to church closure. -Database Manager

2020-05-11 - The organ was purchased in 2007 by St. Alexis in Wexford, PA (north hills of Pittsburgh) for $10,000 (and was destined for their large new church) through Organ Clearing House. I was the consultant. The organ was put in storage until the church was built. The 2008 economic crash caused the St. Alexis building to be vastly scaled back and eventually the organ went back to Organ Clearing House and was in storage until 2020. This organ was a *jewel* and in pristing condition for an 1879 organ. When I visited in 2007, the organ had not been played since the parish closed but the organ was fully playable. It had a large and robust sound with 4 reeds- it had been lovingly maintained by Andover Organ Co. for many years. Original condition and unaltered. -Andrew Scanlon

2024-01-12 - After the Organ Clearing House was unable to find a buyer, and against a removal ultimatum from the storage facility, the organ was destroyed in 2020. -Scot Huntington

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (October 1966) Date not recorded

Manchester, New Hampshire
St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church

E. & G. G. Hook   Opus 946   1879   2 manuals, 22 stops, 24 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                    SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon           58        8' Violin Diapason   58
      8' Open Diapason     58        8' Viola             58
      8' Dulciana          58        8' Stopped Diapason  58
      8' Melodia           58        4' Violina           58
      4' Octave            58        4' Flauto Traverso   58
      4' Flute d'Amour     58        2' Flautino          58
  2 2/3' Twelfth           58        8' Cornopean         58
      2' Fifteenth         58        8' Oboe (TC)       } 46
         Mixture III      174        8' Bassoon         } 12
      8' Trumpet           58        8' Vox Humana        58
                                        Tremolo
         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason     27
     16' Bourdon           27
      8' Violoncello       27

         PEDAL MOVEMENTS                COUPLERS
         2 Great combination pedals     Swell to Great
         Great to Pedal reversible      Great to Pedal
         Swell pedal                    Swell to Pedal

         Bellows Signal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-28]