Books › Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937 › scan 195
Scan 195
Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
29 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 169. See the scan on archive.org.
1in Brookline, Massachusetts, up to about three years ago. Now it is in the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. Their second is still in church use having been in constant service from 1827. They have also built a few theatre organs where the concert type of tone was desired. Clarence Eddy, the recitalist, says, "The highest pressure I remember to have read of in America was the ten-inch wind which was used for some of the stops in the festival organ that Hook & Hastings made for the Gilmore Jubilee in Boston." 2
3Some of the well known earlier organs built by E. & G. G. Hook or E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings were:
5THE FIRST TREMONT TEMPLE organ
6built in 1853. This was probably the largest and best organ in America at that time. It had 4 manuals, 70 stops and 3096 pipes. 3
8THE SECOND TREMONT TEMPLE organ
9built in 1880, to replace the first which had been burned. This also was destroyed by fire in 1893.
11THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION organ
12built in 1863. It was the largest church organ in the United States at that time, and in 1897 was still considered one of the most effective church organs in Boston. It had 3 manuals, each of 58 notes, a pedal keyboard of 27 keys, 47 speaking registers, 5 pedal stops, 56 stops altogether, and 3381 pipes. 3-4
14THE MECHANICS' HALL, Worcester, organ
15built in 1864. This consisted of Great, Swell, Choir, Solo and Pedal organs and was the largest concert organ built in the United States at that time and second only to the Boston Music Hall organ in size. It had 4 manuals, 73 stops, and 3504 pipes. 5-6
17THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (Edward Everett Hale's Church) organ
18built in 1864 according to specifications of the organist, B. J. Lang. It was the largest in any Protestant Church, and had Great, Swell, and Choir manuals and Pedale, 38 speaking stops, 7 pedal stops, one a Bourdon with 32 foot tone, and 2260 pipes. 7
20NEW ORGAN TRINITY CHURCH, New Haven, Conn.
21This organ was begun in November 1865 and finished in 1866, Messrs. Henry P. Holland and Mark H. Plaisted being the mechan-
232 Music. W. S. B. Mathews, Editor, Vol. XV, April 1889 pp. 615-19. Clarence Eddy on American Organs.
243 Lahee, Henry C. "Organs and Organ Building in New England." New England Magazine, December 1897 pp. 500-2.
254 Dwight's Journal of Music, March 5, 1864, Vol. 23 p. 199.
265 Lahee, Henry C. "Organs and Organ Building in New England." New England Magazine, December 1897 pp. 500-2.
276 Dwight's Journal of Music, November 12, 1864 Vol. 24, pp. 339-40 & November 26, Vol. 24, pp. 351-2.
287 Ibid November 26, 1864, Vol. 24, p. 348.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.