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Herman Organ Company

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Bellows signal. Compass unknown, but at this time typically Hook built 58/25.

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Builder: E. & G. G. Hook
Position: Keydesk Attached
Design: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Pedalboard Type: Unknown
Features:
3 Manuals 4 Divisions42 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action

Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Unknown
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Database Manager on January 14th, 2008:

Updated through online information from Jim lewis. -- Organ moved to St. Rose Catholic Church, San Francisco, in 1896 by Felix Schoenstein and provided with new Gothic-style case. Destroyed 1906.


Database Manager on February 15th, 2005:

Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991).

Related Instrument Entries: Felix Fridolin Schoenstein (1896) , William W. Laws (1937) , E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings (1880)

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