Mark A. Smith on January 11th, 2026:
The program for a 11/1/2011 concert featuring Carol Cowan has this to say about the Hook instrument: "Our first organ at IUCC was a Hook and Hastings organ installed in 1927 which was an "orchestral" design with a beautiful string division but an inadequate principal chorus. In 1969 the organ committee decided on the Keates Organ Co. to incorporate 11 ranks from the original instrument plus new reeds and a principal chorus into the [new] organ." Pipes from these Hook ranks were used to create: GT: 8' Spillflote; SW: Salicional, Voix Celeste, Gedeckt, and II Sesquialtera; CH/PO: 8' Nason Flote; PD: 16' Bourdon, 8' Principal, 8' Gedeckt, and III Rauschpfeife.

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Jim Stettner on August 5th, 2025:
Updated through online information from Andrew Henderson (August 4, 2025): It appears that the original name for this congregation was United Congregational Church (perhaps worth updating). According to the *Rochester Democrat & Chronicle* (March 24, 1927) the organ was built by Hook & Hastings. The instrument was designed by George E. Fisher, organist of Lake Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester, who also played the dedicatory recital on March 24, 1927. [Editor: One questions if this was a second-hand installation as no such entry appears on the Hook & Hastings opus list, nor does any organ by the firm in Rochester after 1926].

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Mark A. Smith on August 2nd, 2025:
Selected ranks of pipes and the chimes from this unknown instrument were incorporated into the 1969 Keates Organ Co. instrument at this same location. See the Database entry for that instrument (ID=73397).