Restored and reconstructed organ by De Backer of Middelburg ca1750
The soundboard and inside pipework were bought in Amsterdam by Steve Barrell, keyboard player and scholar. He was told that they came from an organ made by Ludovicus de Backer of Middelburg in Zeeland, the Netherlands, in the mid eighteenth century, and thought that the organ resembled the one depicted in a well-known watercolour painting, illustrated in Jan Gierveld’s Het Nederlandse Huisorgel in de 17de en 18de eeuw (Utrecht 1977).
The pipes, as seems
to have been usual practice with de Backer, are second hand, and look
17th century in style. The sound is exquisitely sweet. The oak case,
keyboard, bellows and action are new, designed by Martin Goetze, based
on examples of de Backer’s work in Vlijmen, Oirschot and Gapinge
(NL) and in the Vleeshuis museum in Antwerp.
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The key compass is C – f3 (54 notes), with pull-down pedals for C – eº (17 notes). This organ was restored in 1991, and was finished in 2007.  |
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