Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 1810, 1898)

Location:

Cornell College
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 US
King Chapel
Organ ID: 14316

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Colleges and Universities
  • The organ is no longer at this location; destroyed, dispersed, relocated or taken in trade.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 37 ranks. 2,121 pipes. 4 divisions. 3 manuals. 34 stops. 33 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Divisions: 4
  • Stops: 34
  • Registers: 33
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection with pneumatic assists (i.e., Barker levers, etc.).
  • Stop Action: Tubular-pneumatic connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Combination Action: Fixed mechanical system.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
  • Has Crescendo Pedal
  • Has Coupler Reversible Toe Pistons
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on December 10, 2009:

Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on November 02, 2006:

Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- 7-sectional façade containing 37 pipes arranged: 4-5-3-13-3-5-4. These were likely from the Great 16' Open Diapason & 8' Open Diapason. The organ had a Pedal-to-Pedal Super Octave coupler. There were six, fixed, double-acting foot trundle combination levers for: Great Forte, Mezzo, and Piano, as well as Swell Forte, Mezzo, and Piano - plus a Great-to-Pedal Reversible. The bottom ocatve of all manual divisions was pneumatically assisted. Wind was furnished by a water motor which was actuated by a hitch-down foot lever. The inaugural recial was given on Sunday evening February 18, 1899.

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.
Stoplist copied from the Dedicatory Recital program: Open In New Tab Originally published 1898
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Jim Stettner on August 02, 2021.

Instrument Images:

Organ facade: Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Rick Erickson. Taken approx. c 1908

Organ case at front of King Chapel: Photograph from an archival source: From a builder's catalogue; facsimiie reproduction by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1898