Hook & Hastings
Opus 2494, 1924

Mission Dolores Basilica

Sanctuary; rear gallery

3321 16th Street
San Francisco, CA, US

26 Ranks
Instrument ID: 13987 ● Builder ID: 7359 ● Location ID: 12820
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals 23 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Database Manager on September 7th, 2019:

According to Facebook posts by Timothy Tikker on Sept. 7, 2019 - it [the organ] was completely under expression in chambers speaking from the sides of the gallery: Great/Choir and Pedal 16's at left, Swell and Pedal 8' Violoncello at right. it was a far cry from their 19th century work... the reeds were very good, the rest typical 1920s sounds. There was no Diapason tone above 4', and the 4' didn't operate all the time I played there. One unusual feature was an Orchestral Flute that didn't have the usual organ flue pipe mouth construction, rather a hole drilled into the side of the pipe, then a tube coming out of the pipe foot which directed air across the hole, simulating a transverse flute mouthpiece. The only mixture was a very soft Dolce Cornet III.


Database Manager on September 9th, 2005:

On-line update from Timothy Tikker -- This organ also controlled a 2-manual 1920s Schoenstein chancel organ, which had two small separate consoles of its own. These organs were replaced with a large electronic in recent years. The Hook pipework has mostly gradually disappeared, though last I heard some large wood pipes remained. Blaine Ricketts told me he had many of the pipes.


Database Manager on February 15th, 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).

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