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Hook & Hastings Opus 1906 (1901)

First Baptist Church
848 Beacon Street
Newton Centre, MA

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

Images

1943 - Sanctuary interior with organ in front (Photograph from an archival source: Scanned photograph at the church, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1940's - Sanctuary interior with organ in front (Photograph from an archival source: Scanned photograph at the church, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1920's-30's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Digital Commonwealth-Massachusetts Collections Online, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
31 stops
30 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Slider chests. Rebuilt in the 1950's by Frazee, including new windchests. Case widened. Some pipework used in the 1984 Andover organ for this church. -Database Manager

2008-09-15 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was free-standing and encased at the front of the room. The action was electric - likely to slider chests since it had a straight stoplist. Source: Andover Organ Co. files accessed in 1988. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from Andover Organ Co. files

Newton Centre, Massachusetts
First Baptist Church

Hook & Hastings, Opus 1906, 1901


    GREAT                                        SWELL (Expressive)
16  Open Diapason                61          16  Bourdon Treble         (tc)  49
8   Open Diapason                61          16  Bourdon Bass                 12
8   Doppel Floete                61          8   Open Diapason                61
8   Viola da Gamba               61          8   Stopped Diapason             61
8   Dulciana                     61          8   Salicional                   61
4   Octave                       61          8   Voix Celeste                 61
4   Flute Harmonique             61          8   Aeoline                      61
2   Fifteenth                    61          4   Flute Traverso               61
III Mixture                     183          4   Violina                      61
8   Trumpet                      61          III Dolce Cornet                183
                                             8   Cornopean                    61
                                             8   Oboe and Bassoon             61
    CHOIR                                        Tremolo
8   Geigen Principal             61
8   Melodia                      61
8   Dulciana                     61              PEDAL
4   Flute d'Amour                61          16  Open Diapason                30
4   Fugara                       61          16  Bourdon                      30
8   Clarinet               (tc)  49          8   Violoncello                  30
    Tremolo


COUPLERS                                     FOOT TRUNDLES
Swell to Pedal  ?                            Undocumented
Great to Pedal  ?
Choir to Pedal  ?
                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Great  ?                            Swell Expression             (bal.)
Choir to Great  ?

Swell to Choir  ?


ACTION: E-P Slider      VOICES: 30      STOPS: 31      RANKS: 34      PIPES: 1969


NOTES
The organ was free-standing and encased at the front. The facade was 7-sectional
with 46 pipes arranged: 9-3-11-drape-11-3-9. The space above the 11-sections and
the drape was 'tomato can' dummies.

The organ was rebuilt in the 1950's by Frazee which included new windchests. Pipes
from this organ were used by the Andover Organ Co. instrument installed in 1986.


Sources: Andover Organ Co. files.


First Baptist Church
848 Beacon St.
Newton Centre, MA. 82459

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