It was a very nice, beautiful day. I enjoyed the wonderful weather. It was sunny and bright the whole day. Unfortunately, being with Egbert means I was no where near to an Adventist church. Also, I had no way to get to one.... So, Egbert and I went north to Leeuwarden (pronounced Lay-ue-ward-den). We visited the Grote of St. Jacobijnakerk where they have a wonderful 1727 Muller organ. We got there around 9 and played for about two hours. The organ is unique in so far as it has double principles. What this means, is when you pull the foundation stop of almost all organ music (the 8 ft principle or Praestant) it actually has two pipes for each note. So, it has a very special warmth and roundness to the sound. It fills the church (actually not all the big, about the length of the Collegedale sanctuary or shorter and much about 20ft narrower) very nicely. It has about 4 seconds of reverberation so it is very "live" sound. I played a bunch of stuff. Bach D major prelude and fugue, chorales, C major prelude and Fugue (on Allein Gott) and some buxtehude stuff like the passacaglia and some shorter works. It was a blast.
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Then we went back to Emlichheim and stopped in Steenwijk on the way to play this instrument. A French romantic instrument from the 1860s
interesting!
ReplyDeletehaving more fun today, i am sure.
Great pictures! These organs are all so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYup Mrs.Q! And thanks Ali. Any greatness in the picture is due to beautiful organs, not photographic skill on my part! Ali, when you do come back from Korea land?
ReplyDeleteWe're done our contracts on June 27, will be doing some last exploring around Korea with the family (yay!) until July 12, and then head over to southeast Asia for another two weeks of traveling. So therefore, we'll fly into Vancouver on July 27. The traveling will be nice, but I just can't wait to be home again! Will you be in the area between July 27 and August 6ish? Hope we can see you while we're in the Okanagan (or at Campmeeting)! Otherwise you'll just have to do a New England organ trip in the near future. :)
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