Better Pipe Organ Database

Watersmith Pipe Organs Opus 29 (1995)

Holy Cross Roman Catholic Cathedral: Blessed Sacrament Chapel
1400 Washington St
Boston, MA

Images

2020-08-06 - Room (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)

2020-08-06 - Facade (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)

2008-02-22 - Organ (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
8 stops
10 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs
Manual compass: 57 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2020-06-16 - Relocated here in 1995 through OCH from TX storage. [On the Hook Opus list for German Evangelical, Knoxville, TN.] Uses much of the case and chassis of H & H 1047. -John Roper

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded

E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 1047, 1881

Manual: 56 notes, enclosed
   +*  Open Diapason               8'  32 m
       Stopped Diapason Treble     8'  32 w
       Stopped Diapason Bass       8'  24 w
    *  Principal Treble            4'  32 m
    *  Principal Bass              4'  24 m
   ~*  Mutations [MC] 2 2/3' - 1 1/3'  64 m
    *  Gemshorn Treble             2'  32 m
    *  Gemshorn Bass               2'  24 m

Pedal: 27 notes
       Sub Bass                   16'  27 w
    *  Violone                     8'  27 m
       Manual to Pedal Coupler

    +  notes 1-24 borrowed from pedal 8' violone
    *  indicates a partially or completely new set of pipes
    ~  double draw: half draw = 2 2/3';
       full draw = 1 1/3'; half off = both

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#14504 - E. & G. G. Hook Opus 489 (1869)