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1861 E. & G. G. Hook Organ, Opus 300

1861 E. & G. G. Hook Organ

The Holy Cross organ is not only beautiful to see and hear, and a very practical tool for leading the worship of the assembly, it is a rare surviving example of a three-manual (three keyboard) instrument by this firm, considered the foremost 19th Century American organbuilder.

Short History and Stoplist

Photographs

Audio Files:  these sound files now in faster downloading mp3 format
Toccata on "Placare Christe Servulis"   ~Marcel Dupré, played by Daniel J. Susan
Improvisation on "Earth and All Stars" ~Daniel J. Susan
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Pipedreams from Minnesota Public Radio  (listen to the Holy Cross organ here! March 2001)


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LINKS OF INTEREST

St. John's Organ Society, Bangor, Maine. Hook opus 288: 
http://hookopus288.org/

E & G.G. Hook History up to 1860: http://www.concertartist.info/organhistory/history/hist071.html

Hook/Hook & Hastings after 1860: http://www.concertartist.info/organhistory/history/hist072.html

How a pipe organ works: http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/articles/howapipeorganworks.shtml

Mechanical Action Organs: http://concertartist.info/organhistory/works/works12.htm

Hook opus 553, Berlin, Germany: http://www.hook-orgel.de/e1hookorgel.html#gebrueder_hook

Organ Historical Society:
http://www.organsociety.org/

American Guild of Organists (AGO): http://www.agohq.org/home.html

Detroit Chapter, AGO:  http://detroitago.org/Options.html


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