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198: 179: 22: 243:. Details about many of their instruments are also available in the Pipe Organ Database, operated by the Organ Historical Society. They published several editions of their "Green Book", which served as a source of general information about pipe organs as well as catalog and advertisement for their firm. 209:
in Boston, Massachusetts. This instrument comprises 101 ranks over 3 manuals and pedal. Among the more notable features of this instrument are likely a result of having to fill such a large space; namely the use of imported reeds from Zimmerman of Paris, bold mixtures, cornets and a Tuba Mirabilis
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in Boston which later burned. Their largest concert hall organ—indeed the "oldest unaltered four-keyboard pipe organ in the Western hemisphere located at its installation site"—was installed in 1864 at
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The Hook firm built over 2,000 pipe organs, many of which are still extant today. Some remain in unaltered, original condition, such as the three-manual instrument at First Unitarian Church in
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made in the Hook factory. This instrument exists in a mechanically altered state having been electrified, however; it largely remains tonally original. One of the Hook organs was exported to
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cited the instrument as having "particular historical" merit. With the exception of an electric blower, the instrument is almost completely as originally installed.
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When the Hook brothers were getting ready to retire, in 1871, Frank Hastings joined the firm, at which point the name was changed to
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The Hook Opus List, 1829-1916 in Facsimile with a Compiled List of Organs 1916-1935 and Facsimiles of Promotional Publications
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A Complete list of organs built by E & G. G. Hook & Hastings has been published by the
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The largest extant organ built by the firm is their opus 801 built in 1875 for the
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The 1875 Hook & Hastings organ of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston
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A Hook organ, formerly in use in the First Unitarian Church in
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Musical instrument manufacturing companies based in Boston
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and was rebuilt in 2001 in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche.
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