Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 2123, 1906)

Location:

First Baptist Church
Vermont and Meridian Streets
Indianapolis, IN 46204 US
Organ ID: 14288

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Baptist Churches
  • The organ is no longer at this location; destroyed, dispersed, relocated or taken in trade.
  • The organ's condition is not playable.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on January 26, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 23 registers.
All:
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Built by Hook & Hastings
  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Registers: 23
  • Key Action: Tubular-pneumatic connection from key to chest.
  • Stop Action: Tubular-pneumatic connection between stop control and chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Paul R. Marchesano on January 26, 2023.
Paul R. Marchesano on January 26, 2023:

The church building was finished at a cost of $227,000 and dedicated during the week of Novem.ber 25, 1906. The auditorium seated 1,400. The Hook & Hastings firm. of Boston, Massachusetts, installed its opus 2123, a two -manual, twenty-three-register organ. The instrument apparently had tubular-pneumatic action, because this was noted on the Kinetic blower order on July 27, 1915. The threehorsepower unit for 411 wind pressure cost $196.65 and was shipped on August 15. Perceval Owen played the Hook & Hastings for nearly thirty years and died at the console at age sixty-five on November 28, 1942, having just played "Abide with Me" during a choir rehearsal. -- 2007 OHS Atlas

We received the most recent update for this note from Paul R. Marchesano on January 26, 2023.
Database Manager on March 22, 2005:

Replaced by Casavant Frères Op. 2575 when the congregation moved to a new building at 8600 N. College Ave. in 1960.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on February 11, 2019.
Database Manager on February 16, 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).

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

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