January 2016

A saint of our own

Cor Edskes, organologist, leader in the organ reform movement and historic organ restoration in Europe, and former editor of Het Orgel, died September 7, 2015, in Groningen, the Netherlands. Further information and tribute will be published in a future issue of The Diapason.

Buried Treasures: 

The Harpsichord Pages 

Velocity II

At age 18, we are going to college! The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival is moving to its new home at Trinity College in Hartford! After enjoying eighteen glorious years of this annual festival at the First Church of Christ in Wethersfield, we look forward to even greater community participation moving forward.

The performance of notes inégales (the primarily French convention of performing equally notated melodies in an unequal fashion by alternating short

Charles M. Ruggles, Conifer, Colorado

Henry Kilgen, 1884

Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio

Our Lady of Fatima Church, Lafayette, Louisiana