Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings (Opus 1080, 1882)

Location:

Episcopal Church
Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 US
Small church
Organ ID: 15997

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Status and Condition:

This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
The organ is unaltered 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
9 ranks. 2 manuals. 17 registers.

Divisions

All:

Chest Type(s): Slider chests
Position: In side 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.

Consoles

Main:

Manuals: 2
Registers: 17
Position: Keydesk attached.
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 vertical rows on flat jambs.
Combination Action: Fixed mechanical system.
Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.

We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Notes

Database Manager on May 04, 2007:

Updated through on-line information from James Hale.  -- The instrument was rebuilt in 1970 by Karl Wilhelm while he building another organ in Montpelier.  At that he replaced the Dulciana with a 2' princial down to the common bass octave.  More recently his pipes have been removed and the old ones restored.  He had stored them on top of the swell.  He was not that happy at altering an historical organ.  The organ in now in good shape, but the future of the church building is somewhat in question.  The current female priest wants to shut it down and convert to some other use.

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).