Ancient European organs Scandinavian churches
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The Scandinavian countries and Sweden explore two of Europe's
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ancient notes and music and the
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performance of music composers.
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In our exploration of organs.
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First the oldest
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in the country. By the same token the most valuable of Finland's historical
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warriors. Only seven such instruments are erected in the eighteenth century remain
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of them among some instrument is the only one which originally had two manuals and
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that.
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If not directly the product of one of the old organ building masters and one so my
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instrument is the creation of one of the star pupils of a master builder
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our passionate guy is famous as the German master builder who created many of the
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instruments for which both books to Huda and Bach created their monumental works.
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One of the pupils in this exacting craft was a certain Eric us gum
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on carpenter and organ builder from Stockholm. The organ we
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now hear from the months of church was originally built for and directed in the church
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of Finland.
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In the Koran it Praed youd thought of an incident in the Himalayas by Johann Sebastian
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Bach. We have heard the eight foot principle stop one of the original stops of the
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organ as built by Americans get them on in 1738.
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Get mana arrived in Stockholm Sweden and 1736
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apparently for the purpose of building an organ for the church there. It's reported that as
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soon as he arrived in town and was able to obtain sufficient quantities of tin and lead
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from Bosnia he began work. After two years the instrument was
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completed and in its original form it had a total of 21 stops
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at the Ric positif had six. The pedal five hundred
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Varick and the pedal pipes made up the main organ with its own facade. While the route
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positif made up its own facade on the railing of the balcony behind the organist.
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With.
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The in.
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Or up of almonds on the cans on a in C by bookstore Huda
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organist in zero force blog a selected stop from the original organ of anarchist
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Gammon. There are many features in the construction and tone and planning
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of the months organ which point directly to option of going himself. Perhaps the
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most important of these is the root positive at the time of its construction
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and this was the only one of its kind in all of Finland and it remained so down to the year
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1879. It was at this time that the instrument was removed
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from its original location in the church in Kolkata to its present location in the church
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in months a lot from the organist's point of view of the most disastrous change
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involved the placing of the rick positive behind the facade of the main organ rather
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than retaining it on the balcony rail. Many of the stops from this division of the
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original organ were replaced and the pedal pipes placed in the case of the organ when it was
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first built are now back behind the case which contains dummy pipes in their
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places. Fortunately enough of the original pipework survived so that we
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are able to obtain a fairly accurate tonal picture of the original instrument.
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The compositions we're hearing are all played on stops from the original organ not
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those replaced as part of the 1879 relocation.
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Our exploration of the Americas game on organ in the month select church in Finland
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concludes as organist in 0 4 strum plays the Christmas chorale
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Dietrich books to Huda in a day.
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The Christmas card you'd buy
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books no doubt. The second
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ancient European organ's object of our exploration on this broadcast is
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housed in the left church in Sweden.
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The who.
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I am.
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PRAED Yoda by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by organist
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Auslander in the list of Brook church in Sweden.
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The builder of this ancient European organ was Johann Nicholas comment. The
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instrument is of two manuals and petal and contains no less than twenty
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eight stops to create such an impressive instrument completely
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handcrafting every part that went into it acquired the years between seventeen twenty
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five and seven hundred twenty eight and not an usual span of time considering the
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prodigious amount of work involved organist Auslander
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now plays the chorale pride you'd got if her mind was like send by
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crepes.
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Why.
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That was the current plan you'd got to her mind's Lifeson by
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crepes today's broadcast of ancient
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European organs concludes with another corral this one by your heart involved
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there. Based on the Labor Day in heaven.
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Thank you.
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Go around Labor Day and Heron by Johan vote.
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You have been listening to the series ancient European origins of
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instruments erected during the period from the Middle Ages. The middle of the 18th
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century. Together with facts about them the structures in which they are hard
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to listen to performances. By man.
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Their contemporary. Today's broadcast was recorded in the church
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and once on I often heard an organ built by
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1738. To the list of Brook church in the suite. At the
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organ erected between year 17 25 and 17 28.
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