Ancient European organs Church in Machelen
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Were.
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The church a national mandate in
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European or so years of historical interest of
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promises of music some of its contemporary.
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The birth of endangered these lands as they are
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crazy to European orcas resurrected about 16 40
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it was not until 17 25 however that the woodwork inside the building was finished
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and it was your Highness to bear gave the church its final touch. I'm building organ marks
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the wood sculpture the organ we are hearing today was purchased on the 21st
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of January 17th thirty one thousand six hundred sixty guilders
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builder Cornelius Custer was there living in our house.
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Today. Most of the original cashier pipework is placed in the central part of the
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organ.
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Was.
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That was the BGM on the Benedictus by the composer on top who
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lived from fourteen sixty eight to 15 20.
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Organist Gabriele Bush-Reagan skips a century in choosing the composer of the next
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work or artist Scruggs lived some time during the late 15
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hundreds and died some time after the dawn of the new century. They were here
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a work of his untitled echo.
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That was a composition entitled echo by the composer goddess
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Strong's live during the latter part of the 15th hundreds.
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The organ which we're hearing today housed in the church of national and Danes in East
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Flanders Belgium had some important additions made to it by the builder Lembit Ben
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Wa and Pentagram between the years 70 80 and 1786.
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This was accomplished by adding wings as it were to the central portion of the original
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instrument that pentagram added a total of 13 stops to the great
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organ including several eight and four foot stops. A chorus of diet pay
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zones and the five rank cornet. The wooden chest and pipes of the
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choir organ are from the original instrument by cash in 1738.
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The stops remaining for this instrument of the eight foot board on the four foot press stamped
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four foot flute two foot octave one and one third foot Quint.
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The small cornet and the small print your
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organist Gabriele Bush-Reagan now plays a short composition by an unknown Flemish
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master gave out.
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Gave up by an unknown Flemish master the
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organ in the church and my shit on Danes in East Flanders Today has two
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manuals and petto and 25 stops. It remains essential lay the
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work of the original build a corny discussion. Then the man who added to it in
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1780 Lambert I've been wadding Pedagog but better gums work was
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so well Don that the instrument continues to be a model of its kind. The
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organist significant also for the fact that it is lasting proof of the considerable influence
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French organ building practices had on Flemish organ building in the 18th
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century. Organist the governor
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of Michigan when I play a composition by the composer Joseph Hector
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Fiocco born in Brussels in 73 and music master
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of the cathedral in Antwerp on Dante by Joseph
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Fiocco.
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Earth.
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In conclusion the church in my mind danger East Flanders
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Belgium will hear four pieces by Nico last agree a
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boss to trumpet Rice Edith years be allowed to call mourning to Courtenay
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and to the garage.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We're.
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I am. The EU
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out.
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The
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end.
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The end.
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The end.
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Four pieces by Nico asked a green yea performed by recite a list
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Gabriele fresh Reagan.
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I have been listening to another program in the series ancient European organs
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presenting instruments of wrecked it during the period from the Middle Ages the end of the
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18th century.
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Gather with facts about their the structures in which their hard music which was
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performed on them by their contemporaries. Today's broadcast
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featured the two manual and peddled instrument the Church International on Danes at East
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planter's Belgium.
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An instrument of twenty five stops the original portions of which were built in
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1730 right where he gets gas. Stations made and so
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I remember that while cutting out materials for the
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programs are recorded by members of the European Broadcasting Union programme
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boarded in the church in March and endangered by the Flemish division of the Belgian
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radio and television. Especially at a presentation in United State by State
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Uni our network.
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The programme was prepared and written by Honeywell over produced at the University of Michigan.
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For a speaking and inviting. Listen again next week. Nothing tying another program
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into a European work.
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This is the national education or radio network.
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