University of Alabama Keyboard Festival, January 22-23, 2016

October 28–29, 2016, Minneapolis

This article, by Dr. Zdenek Fridrich, was revised and submitted by Mary Skalicky, and translated by Blanka Horáková of Ostrava University and by Michael Skalicky.

As far as can be determined, this was the most important of Halbich's organs, and ranked among the largest in Moravia at the time. It had twenty-five
voices, meaning that it was also the largest organ in Olomouc, even exceeding
Agodoni's organ in the Olomouc Cathedral which had only twenty-three voices.
The Krnov (Rieger-Kloss) firm finished the reconstruction of Halbrich's
instrument, and the reconstructed organ was approved, in 1977. And, as the
approval officer stated, the goal had been attained: to restore the original
sound and appearance of Halbich's instrument.

“Get off the bench and give me ten!”--An investigation of the benefits of physical stretches on organ performance posture

Organists too often break their performance posture at the upper and lower back due to weak abdominal muscles. The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits of physical stretching exercises on three organ performance majors’ posture as demonstrated at weekly lessons.