Hook & Hastings
Opus 2540, 1929

Riverside Church

490 Riverside Drive at 122nd Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY, US

119 Ranks - 7,831 Pipes

Instrument ID: 15367 ● Builder ID: 7359 ● Location ID: 11094

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4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal10 Divisions104 Stops123 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on February 19th, 2016:

Contract signed in 1927. Installation 1929-30. Dedication recital played by Firmen Swinnen (personal organist to Pierre S. du Pont) in November 1930.

Database Manager on May 11th, 2011:

Updated through online information from Connor Annable.

Database Manager on May 19th, 2008:

Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
New console by Aeolian-Skinner, Opus 1118, 1947; replaced by Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118-A, 1953.

Database Manager on March 1st, 2005:

Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991).

Related Instrument Entries: Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 1118, 1947) , Columbia Organ Works (1991)