Foley-Baker, Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, Part 1

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Prologue

Catching the bug

Merrill Auditorium, Portland, Maine

Flentrop Orgelbouw, Zaandam, Netherlands

Dypvåg kirke, Tvedestrand, Norway

The work of Arp Schnitger was the inspiration for the new Flentrop organ in Dypvåg kirke, best suited for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music and with a warm and colorful sound. The organ has two windchests, positioned one behind the other—a seventeenth-century solution—to save space, two wedge bellows, a stable but flexible wind supply, and a small pedal division behind the main case.