Pipe Organ Database

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Unknown Builder

Originally Hook & Hastings (Opus 1131, 1883)

Location:

The Community Church of Harrisville & Chesham UCC
13 Canal St.
Harrisville, NH 03450 US
Sanctuary
Organ ID: 72414

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: United Churches of Christ (UCC)
  • The organ has an unknown or unreported status.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on January 03, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 5 ranks. 2 divisions. 1 manuals. 5 stops.
Manual (Expressive):
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Built by Hook & Hastings
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on January 03, 2023.

Pedal:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Built by Hook & Hastings
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on January 03, 2023.
Main:
  • Built by Hook & Hastings
  • Manuals: 1
  • Divisions: 2
  • Stops: 5
  • 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 horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
We received the most recent update for this console from Jim Stettner on January 03, 2023.
Jim Stettner on January 03, 2023:

This entry represents the installation of a used pipe organ. Identified from the Monadnock Chapter AGO website. The organ was originally built for Second Presbyterian Church in Pottsville, PA. Not presently known who relocated the organ to New Hampshire, or if any tonal or mechanical changes were made.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on January 03, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Organ case and keydesk: Photograph from an archival source: Monadnock Chapter AGO website via Facebook, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken on 2015-09-08

Congregational (later, Community) Church (right): Photograph from an archival source: Historic Harrisville, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1910's

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