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Fairground Organ – Memories of De Oranjestad
£7.95
The 72-key Mortier organ destroyed by fire in 1983. Rare recordings from 1981.
CD Duration: 52.49 / Year: 2011.
2011 release. The 72-key Mortier organ, once popular around the streets of Amsterdam, until destroyed by fire in 1983. Rare recordings from 1981.
Waffen Gefahrten March
My Dream
Viva Torers
Potpourri
Willem
Poppa Picolino
The Smurf Song
Delilah
Arabian Affair
Copacabana
Summertime
Tango of Love
Amsterdam Song
Flipper Theme
Around Another Corner
The Windmill Song
Come & Find Me
You Never Say Sorry
Milord
Ramona
Never on a Sunday
Guaglione
SLEEVE NOTES:
Memories of De Orangjestad A visit to Amsterdam would not be complete without taking in the sights of a Royal Palace, two fine museums, the Rijks and Stedelijk and the network of canals that boast almost 1000 bridges. This is also the setting for the City’s other attraction, the almost unique street organ with its melodious tone and harmony.
Once numerous and able to be pulled around the streets to popular sites, now they have to vie with modern day hustle and street traffic, along with the restrictions imposed by todays street furniture and legistlation. But so too has the street organ moved with the modern age. Few are now turned by hand, having given way to an electrical supply to drive the air pump.
Many organs gained reputations for tonal quality for which the Frei family, notably Carl, were to become aficionados and an almost elitism was developed by some organs with names such as “The Waterporter” and “The Arabier” gaining fame outside their own country. De Oranjestad was built at the beginning of the 1920s. A time of overseas importance for The Netherlands, with the rapid development of the Antilles of which Oranjestad was the chief town on the island of Aruba.
The organ was rebuilt by Carl Frei during the 1930s and it was owned for many years by the Perlee Concern in Amsterdam. The Mortier 72-key organ was tragically destroyed by fire in 1983. But De Oranjestad lives on in these now rare recordings made in 1981, bringing back the sounds that for over 60 years were to be heard along the streets of Amsterda
Cover photo from www.draaiorgelforum.nl.
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