This is well in touch with the current evolution of the ideas in Belgium today;
a 1854 Hook & Hastings organ was rescued in Portland, Maine, and is prestently
re-erected in Boom (about mid-way between Brussels and Antwerpen).
The opening is due this end May.

Here is a page with pictures and Specifications:

http://www.wallacepipeorgans.com/html/for_...ook%20Op173.pdf

Pierre

Pierre

Very interesting - I'd be curious to know whether the option has been taken to extend the pedal compass to d27. Can you enlighten us?

Bazuin

Well, I hope they did not do that !

Pierre

I hope its not altered in any way

Go figure: we would import an historic organ from 5000 km away,
something which is a rarity even there, and this, just to "better"
it after "our modern standards" ? I see no point there...

Pierre

I wouldn't have thought the balanced swell was an original feature, given its date.

R

"Go figure: we would import an historic organ from 5000 km away,
something which is a rarity even there, and this, just to "better"
it after "our modern standards" ? I see no point there..."


I only mentioned it because the organ's description you sent the link for suggests that this could be done in the process of it re-housing/restoration.

Bazuin

This was an add issued before any sale was discussed yet; as for the balanced
swell pedal, it is probably not original of course.

Pierre

What a little gem! Strawberry Hill gothick at its best! So nice to see something coming from over the pond that isn't all bells and whistles - not that the organs from the States are in any way less musical or tasteful I hasten to add