E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings
Opus 1047, 1881
German Evangelical Lutheran Church
Asylum Street
Knoxville, TN, US
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CONSOLES
Features:
1 Manuals (56 Notes)27 Note Pedal2 Divisions8 Stops10 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Per the newspaper article in the Knoxville Daily Chronical, 21 August, 1881, the organ was a Hook and Hastings Chapel Organ No. 2. It arrived on 30 July and was set up over the following week by the pastor.
Database Manager on April 9th, 2020:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to the 50th Anniversary booklet, "March 15, 1881, a pipe organ was bought for $560.00. $500.00 of the sum was donated by Mr. E. W. Eckhardt." It was relocated to the new church in 1904, and taken in-trade against the cost of a new organ in 1917.
Database Manager on September 30th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Will Dunklin. -- The building that housed this organ no longer exists. The German Lutheran church became First Lutheran, q.v.
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: Unknown Builder (1904)
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