Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 2440, 1921)

Location:

St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
Boston, MA US
Organ ID: 14575

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
  • 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 Jeff Scofield on July 06, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 46 ranks. 4 divisions. 3 manuals. 37 stops. 46 registers.
All:
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Divisions: 4
  • Stops: 37
  • Registers: 46
We received the most recent update for this console from Jeff Scofield on July 06, 2022.
Database Manager on June 02, 2008:

Replaced by Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1207 (contract dated 1950), using altered H&H case.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on February 26, 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.
From THE DIAPASON April 1920: Open In New Tab
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Jeff Scofield on July 06, 2022.
Write-up from THE DIAPASON April 1920: Open In New Tab Stoplist and commentary
We received the most recent update for this document from Jeff Scofield on July 06, 2022.

Instrument Images:

Church Exterior: Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s).

Left chamber facade: Photograph from an archival source: Hook Organs; Pub. by OHS Press, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1921

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