Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 1615, 1894)

Location:

First Congregational Church
Church Street
Rockland, MA US
Organ ID: 5420

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Congregational Church
  • The organ has been rebuilt or substantially revised.
  • The organ's condition is good, in regular use.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 18 ranks. 982 pipes. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 20 stops. 18 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: 20
  • Registers: 18
  • 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.
  • Has Combination Action Toe Pistons
  • Has Coupler Reversible Toe Pistons
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on September 17, 2008:

Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Pipe fence facade containing 31 pipes. The organ was electrified by Rostron Kershaw in 1962, and was still extant when I documented it on April 21, 1989.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on June 21, 2019.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Electrified by Kershaw before removal. [Still there 1965?] [Church previously had an E. L. Holbrook in earlier building.]

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Original Service of Dedication, September 12, 1894, pp.6 & 7: Open In New Tab Typed Stoplist from James R. Stettner
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on June 22, 2019.

Instrument Images:

Original keydesk attached to the face of the instrument: Photograph by unknown - from the estate of Lillian I Cunningham who played the instrument as a student. (1940's).

Organ case in front of church: Photograph from old church publication.

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