Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 2234, 1910)

Location:

United Church of Newport / First Methodist
63 Third St.
Newport, VT 05855 US
Organ ID: 15988

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ has been altered from its original state.
  • 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
  • 8 ranks. 445 pipes. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 9 stops. 8 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: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 9
  • Registers: 8
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 30
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical 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: No combination action.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on December 01, 2015:

Updated through online information from Andrew Hagberg.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 19, 2007:

Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is recessed into a chamber in the right corner of the front wall. The main organ case has a 3-sectional pipe fence facade of 29 gold-painted pipes arranged 5-19-5. In addition, the two access doors on either side of the organ are surmounted with 5 gold-painted dummmy pipes each. There is a disconnected drawknob labeled as "8 Melodia" for the Great. At some point, someone added a toeboard and a jump slide to the Great. But this necessitated the removal of the swellbox. The organ was later returned to its original configuration and the swellbox reinstated. Only this drawknob remains. The organ had an on-going problem with winding in the winter months. Sliders would not fully line-up between the chest table and the toeboard. So the toeholes and slider holes were enlarged through burning in the autumn of 1988. Documented Oct. 26, 1988.

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.

Instrument Images:

Organ case: Photograph by James R. Stettner. Taken on 1988-10-26

Keydesk: Photograph by James R. Stettner. Taken on 1988-10-26