Complete Organ Overhaul

1926 Hook & Hastings, Opus 2510

Calvary Moravian Church

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Calvary’s organ was built by the Hook and Hastings Co. of Boston, Massachusetts which was in business from 1827-1936. The Opus Number 2510 is inscribed in various places inside the organ. A graffito on the wall inside the organ says: “organ installed March 18, 1926, W.C. Greenwood, J.B. Wilson.” Mr. Greenwood was descended from Joseph Greenwood, who established an organ-building company in England about 1825.

We have been commissioned to renovate this venerable instrument, although the work cannot be qualified as a “historical restoration”. The organ was unaltered until 1983 when E.C. White carried out a conservative modernization plan drawn up by James Boeringer. The console (originally at the far right of the choir loft) was moved to the middle of the case. Twelve bass pipes extended the Tuba into a Pedal Trombone, and twelve new treble pipes in each Great stop made the four-foot coupler functional. A new setter board put the couplers under piston control. At the present time, we replaced all leather inside the windchest and throughout the winding system. The organ received a brand new, state-of-the-art switching and capture system, with a generous amount of memory levels. We have NOT altered the tonal character of this instrument.