Unknown Builder
1940
Originally E. & G. G. Hook (Opus 326, 1866)
Foss Street Methodist
67 Foss Street
Biddeford, ME, US
30 Ranks - 1,725 Pipes
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Unknown
Pedalboard Type: Unknown
Features:
3 Manuals 27 StopsStop Layout: Unknown
Expression Type: Unknown
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
Exhibited in the 1963 OHS convention(s)
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Building is today occupied by Anchor Baptist Church. From teh 1963 OHS Handbook: The organ is equipped with an impressive array of toe studs, pistons, and couplers too numerous for listing here. They are, for the most part, standard.
Database Manager on February 2nd, 2008:
Opus 326 installed in Pine Street COngragational, Lewiston, Maine 1866; rebuilt and electrified by Hook-Hastings, 1923. Relocated here by unidentified builder ca. 1940. Church closed in 1999, and organ placed in storage. Pipes used by Quimby in new organ, St. John's Episcopal, Quincy, Illinois, 2006.
Database Manager on February 2nd, 2008:
Opus 326 installed in Pine Street COngragational, Lewiston, Maine 1866; rebuilt and electrified by Hook-Hastings, 1923. Relocated here by unidentified builder ca. 1940. Church closed in 1999, and organ placed in storage. Pipes used by Quimby in new organ, St. John's Episcopal, Quincy, Illinois, 2006.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
The original builder was E. & G. G. Hook (c. 1865).
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Attribution of original as c. 1865 Hook is probably in 1963 convention booklet.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
A 2m., 1852 E. L. Holbrook organ was moved from this church in 1942 to the Methodist Church in Orrington, ME according to OH 1981:85. From the photograph, it appeared to be in the front center of the church. Where was the above instrument then?
Related Instrument Entries: Hook & Hastings (Opus 2478, 1923) , E. & G. G. Hook (Opus 326, 1863) , Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc. (2006)
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