Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 2526, 1926)

Location:

Asbury Methodist Church / Bethel Christian Fellowship
321 East Ave.
Rochester, NY 14604 US
Historic Sanctuary
Organ ID: 15435

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ is no longer a complete instrument; dispersed/parted out.
  • The organ's condition is not playable.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jeff Scofield on January 18, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 44 ranks. 2,938 pipes. 6 divisions. 4 manuals. 44 stops. 47 registers.
All:
  • Position: In center chambers at the front of the room. Facade pipes or case front visible.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 4
  • Divisions: 6
  • Stops: 44
  • Registers: 47
  • Position: Console in fixed position, center.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
  • Stop Action: Electric connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with roll top.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in vertical rows on angled jambs.
  • Combination Action: Adjustable combination pistons.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard meeting AGO Standards.
  • Has Crescendo Pedal
We received the most recent update for this console from Jeff Scofield on January 18, 2023.
Database Manager on March 02, 2011:

Updated through online information from Philip Fillion. -- The sanctuary can hold upwards of 1,000 people. Organ was very large-four manuals, drawknob console. Had echo (antiphonal?) division in rear of sanctuary in addition to large chambers in the front. In the 50s, the church was sold to Bethel Full Gospel Church when Asbury built their new church. The Pentecostals used a Hammond as well, and by the 1980s, the pipe organ had reached a state of disrepair and the church decided to junk it and install an Allen in the old chambers. Most of the pipework except for the Echo went to a church in Pennsylvania, and the state of the Echo pipes and the console are unknown, except that they are no longer there. The Allen was also uninstalled in the 1990s.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on March 01, 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 January 1927: Open In New Tab
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Jeff Scofield on January 18, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Front of church and organ chamber grilles: Photograph from an archival source: From THE DIAPASON January 1927, submitted by Jeff Scofield.

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