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| A New Organ for the village church of St Niklaus in Olpe-Rehringhausen in Westphalia made in 1997 |
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church is Roman Catholic and stands in the hills of the Sauerland in a
village of about 360 people. It is a small church, but with a good acoustic,
built at the turn of the 20th century in traditional Gothic style with
three Rhenish vaults. It was redecorated using modern fittings in the
late 1970s. The village The new organ was designed in the tradition of
Father Smith, using the surviving parts at St Mary's Finedon in Northamptonshire
(Bernard Smith 1704), and St Lawrence Whitchurch, Little Stanmore, Middlesex
(Gerard Smith 1716) as models.
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