Craigville, Massachusetts
Congregational Tabernacle
E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings, Boston, Massachusetts, Opus 1018, 1881
Barbara J. Owen, Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts, 1966 - Tonal Changes
GREAT
8′ Op Diap 58
8′ Melodia 58
4′ Octave 58
Gr II-III Mixture 149 non-original label
SWELL (Expressive)
Sw 8′ Std Diap (TC) 46
Sw 8′ Unison Bass 12
Sw 4′ Flute 58
Sw 2 2/3′ Nazard (TC) 46
Sw 2′ Fifteenth 58
Tremolo removed in 1960.
PEDALE
16′ Sub Bass 27
COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedale
Great to Pedale
Swell to Great Unison
Swell to Great Octaves
FOOT TRUNDLES
None
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
NOTES
Manual compass: CC–a3, 58 notes; Pedal compass: CCC–D, 27 notes. Originally
built for a studio in Billings Hall, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.,
the organ was moved to the Tabernacle and set up by volunteers in 1960, the
entire job costing $87.00. The chests are chromatic; the Swell is behind the
Great; the pedal keyboard has radiating sharps, unusual in a Hook & Hastings
organ of the period; the pedal pipes are divided at each side and were once
rather pleasingly displayed; the three flats of the walnut case contain 17
Open Diapason basses and the lowest 4 Octave pipes; there are key-depth
adjustment screws in the key cheeks. Recent tonal changes include a Mixture
of mongrel sources in place of a 58-note 8′ Dulciana, a Nazard in place of
a 46-note 8′ Viola, and a Fifteenth in place of a 58-note divided 8′ Oboe
and Bassoon. The Dulciana and Viola pipes are in the two “new” Swell stops.
The organ was relocated by the Organ Clearing House and/or donated by C.B.
Fisk Inc..
[Received from Charles Eberline 2015-06-08.]
[Updated & corrected by James R. Stettner 2021-11-17.]