Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 1561, 1893)

Location:

First Methodist Episcopal Church
S. 5th & K Streets
Tacoma, WA 98405 US
Organ ID: 24291

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ has been relocated.
  • The organ's condition is not playable.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on March 08, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 27 ranks. 1,473 pipes. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 27 stops. 25 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • 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: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 27
  • Registers: 25
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Manual Compass: 58
  • Pedal Compass: 27
  • 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: 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.
Paul R. Marchesano on March 08, 2022:

From G Street Tabernacle?? According to Nye notebooks. Perhaps earlier name of this location.

"Mechanical action. $5,000. Broken up 1953. Some pipework labeled A. Schopp. Manuals 58 notes, pedal 27 notes." -- 2008 OHS Atlas

We received the most recent update for this note from Paul R. Marchesano on March 08, 2022.
Database Manager on November 11, 2007:

Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Pipe fence facade at the front, center of the church. Suggested 3-sectional facade with 47 gold-painted pipes arranged: 17-(1-11-1)-17. This was a quite large and complete 27-rank organ with 16-8-8-8-8-4-4-3-2-III-8 on the Great; 16 (t/b)-8-8-8-8-8-4-4-2-8-8 (t/b) on the Swell; and 16-16-8 on the Pedal. The H&H was removed by Balcom and Vaughan between Jan. 5-10, 1953. It was, indeed, rebuilt by Balcom and Vaughan for Trinity Methodist in the Ballard section of Seattle in 1954 with installation in 1954. It was enlarged to 3-manuals on new pitman chests. The organ was replaced by a 3-man. Aeolian Skinner, contracted in 1952 and installed in 1953 - not 1955.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 18, 2006:

Replaced by 1955 Aeolian-Skinner; relocated to Trinity United Methodist in Seattle, Washington, electrified and enlarged (by six ranks) as Balcom & Vaughan Op. 575.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Balcom and Vaughan files
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Photo from church history: Digital image by James R. Stettner. Taken on 2008-12-15