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3 Manuals 39 Registers

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Jim Stettner on March 5th, 2026:

From the 'Some Treasures' page of the parish website, "In 1884 the 1825 building was enlarged by the addition of the present chancel. The choir, by then consisting of men and boys, was moved to two sets of facing choir stalls in the new chancel, and an organ of three manuals and thirty stops, built by the Hook & Hastings company of Boston, was installed on the left-hand side of the chancel."

"Like its two predecessors, the Hook & Hastings organ originally had mechanical (“tracker”) key and stop action and a console attached to the side facing the choir. It was dedicated on November 20, 1884, in an organ recital by Samuel Brenton Whitney, organist of the Church of the Advent in Boston, which included two sacred solos by Master George E. Warring, boy soprano."


Database Manager on September 27th, 2012:

Electrified by Laws in 1929. Antiphonal added 2001 by SLH Organs. Now four manuals.


Database Manager on November 21st, 2005:

Updated through online information from John Speller. -- The church's website refers to the "current Hook & Hastings organ" having four manuals, so it seems that it is still there but an antiphonal division has been added. The current organist is Barbara Owen and the previous one was the late John Ogasapian, so I would think it would be fairly easy to find out. John.


Database Manager on February 28th, 2005:

This entry represents the installation of a new organ. 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: S. L. Huntington & Co. (2001) , Wilson Barry (1972) , William W. Laws (1929)

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