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Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) (1890ca.)

OHS convention: 2000

Images

1999-05-04 - Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
• Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
• 3 manuals
• 30 stops
• 4 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
• Manual compass: 56 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was E. & G. G. Hook (1854, Opus 171). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Extension of Pedal from 20 to 27 notes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: 2000 OHS Handbook

Great (56 notes, Manual II, unenclosed) Grand Open Diapason (TC) 16 (44 (originally a Second Open Diapason at 8-foot pitch)), Open Diapason 8 (56 "Ex. Op." 1-21 in facade, remainder interior), Gamba (TC) 8, Melodia Treble (TC) 8 (44, 13-20 stopped wood, remainder open wood), Std. Diap. Bass 8 (12 CC-BB), Principal 4, Twelfth 2⅔, Fifteenth 2, Sesquialtra III, Mixture II, Trumpet Treble (TC) 8 (44, 13-49 reeds), Trumpet Bass 8 (12 CC-BB), Clarion 4 (56, 1-37 reeds)

Swell (56 notes, Manual III, enclosed) Bourdon Treble (TC) 16, Bourdon Bass 16 (12 CC-BB, unenclosed), Open Diapason 8 (49, 1-7 grooved to Stopped Diapason Bass), Viol di Gamba (TC) 8, Std. Diapason Treble (TC) 8, Std. Diapason Bass 8 (12 CC-BB), Principal 4, Mixture II, Trumpet 8 (56, 1-49 reeds), Hautboy 8 (56, 1-49 reeds), Vox Humana 8 (56, 1-49 reeds), Tremulant

Choir (56 notes, Manual I, unenclosed) Dulciana 8, Viol d'amour (TC) 8 (44 bell gamba), Clarabella (TC) 8 (39, 13-17 grooved to Stopped Diapason; remainder open wood), Std. Diapason Treble (TC) 8 (44 stopped wood), Stopped Diapason Bass 8 (12 CC-BB), Principal 4, Flute 4, Clarionet (GG) 8 (49, 8-49 reeds)

Pedals (27 notes, unenclosed) Dbl. Open Diapason 16 (27 open wood throughout; 21-27 Geo. S. Hutchings), Dbl. Dulciana 16 (27 open wood throughout; 21-27 Geo. S. Hutchings), Bourdon 16 (SW (1-12 play at 16' pitch; 13-24 play at 32' pitch; 25-27 play at 64' pitch!)), Violoncello 8 (27, 1-20 bell gamba; 21-27 Geo. S. Hutchings), Possaune [sic] 16 (27 wood resonators and shallots, 1860 Hook addition; 21-27 Geo. S. Hutchings)

Couplers Great to Pedals, Swell Bass to Pedals, Choir to Pedals, Swell to Great, Choir to Great, Swell to Choir

Mechanical Movements/Combinations Great Forte, Great Piano, Swell Forte, Swell Piano, Pedal Check, Bellows Signal

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #9712 - E. & G. G. Hook (1860)
• #68338* - E. & G. G. Hook Opus 171 (1854)

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