E. & G. G. Hook
Opus 400, 1866
Cheney Hall [Little Theatre of Manchester]
177 Hartford Road
South Manchester, CT, US
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CONSOLES
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: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals 15 StopsMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
Database Manager on September 15, 2014:
Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- April 2002 article in The Diapason describes the 1990 Andover restoration
Jim Stettner on December 27th, 2020:
Database Manager on June 10, 2007:
Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Building originally built in 1866 as a performing arts/community center. Organ believed to be original, but only one documented E. & G.G. Hook appears on the Hook opus list - First Congregational, a I-manual from 1857. However, two Hook organs from 1866 exist but are for undesignated buyers/locations: opuses 392 and 393. Perhaps it is one of these. The facade is three-sectional with three Romanesque arches containing 23 stenciled facade pipes arranged: 7-9-7. Building gradually fell into disuse and the organ into disrepair. Suffered from some vandalism. 1978, Cheney Hall designated a National Historic Landmark Building by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Organ believed to have been restored by Andover ca. 1991.
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).
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1986
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Restored in 2000 by Andover (Op. R290).
Related Instrument Entries: Andover Organ Co. (Opus R290, 2000)
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