Hook & Hastings
Opus 1524, 1892
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Sanctuary; rear gallery
615 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA, US
21 Ranks - 1,162 Pipes
Instrument ID: 5334 ● Builder ID: 7359 ● Location ID: 5065
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
Design: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals (58 Notes)30 Note Pedal3 Divisions18 Stops20 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Fixed Mechanical
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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Exhibited in the 2016 OHS convention(s)
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Jim Stettner on October 14th, 2020:
**Database Manager on October 16, 2017:** "Messrs. Hook & Hastings, of Boston, have just completed an organ in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. The instrument is built upon very large scales, containing ten stops in the great, eight in the swell, and two in the pedal, and has reversed action and is blown by a water-motor." *The Organ*, June 1892
**Database Manager on October 16, 2017:** "Messrs. Hook & Hastings, of Boston, have just completed an organ in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. The instrument is built upon very large scales, containing ten stops in the great, eight in the swell, and two in the pedal, and has reversed action and is blown by a water-motor." *The Organ*, June 1892
Database Manager on October 2nd, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The Organ Clearing House website notes (2012-10-01) that there are 37 facade pipes console is 61" wide and 70" deep, pitch is A=435, wind pressure is 3.11", there is a new Ventus blower in a silencing cabinet (30" square), the original double rise bellows have been completely restored (1998) including hand pump and feeders, all manual key action completely renewed/restored (1998) with new leather nuts, bushing and fiber links, all pipework cleaned and restored (1998) with original cone and scroll tuning intact, tuning collars installed for mixture, all stoppers have been repacked, all wood pipes finishes have been resealed, keyboards have original ivory, pedalboard has been recovered, bench has added backrest, all windlines have been regasketed and resealed, original finish has been restored on casework, all framing and supports have been cleaned, sealed, and restored, slider windchests appear to have original tables, and pallet leather condition is unknown. Case dimensions are 21'-3" high to tallest facade pipe (top of swell box is 19'-6"), 17'-6" wide, and 9'-0" deep. Restored in 1998 by Guy Therien of Guilbault-Therien.
Database Manager on January 29th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The organ is currently for sale.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1995
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Detached, reversed console. Unused. Damaged when ceiling collapsed in June 1995. Restored 1998 by Guilbault-Th?rien. Most pipework restored. Replicas made of unrepairable ones.
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