Hooghuys festival, Geraardsbergen

Hooghuys organ returns to the town where it was made for the first Hooghuys Festival. visit www.hooghuysfestival.be for details of this year's festival, then pay us a visit!

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Music

Tags:

• Hooghuys
• dansorgel
• draaiorgel
• organ
• orgel
• Geraardsbergen
• fairorgan
• festival
• Grammont
• centenary

[bietebouwer]

Well, that's me inside the trailer ... I had no idea you were there, Stephen?!

[happycowmusic]

Yes, I was with the camera! There was much to see at this festival and many of my friends had organs there. This year I am bringing my organ to the event!

[bietebouwer]

The organ is operated by "keys", like in a piano. But in a mechanical organ, the keys are like large metal fingers; when a hole in the cardboard book passes above such a 'finger', the key slips into the hole and this allows air to pass to the pipes.

[NICOLAJ154]

i mean the word 'keys'...for the that stuf there

are on the organ...

[bietebouwer]

What do you mean?

[NICOLAJ154]

and why does has it the name key?

[bietebouwer]

57 key, with only a piano-forte register.

[NICOLAJ154]

how many keys was this organ on?...

[KawhackitaRag]

I recognize this waltz... this is "Espana Waltz" by Waldteufel... who really merely rearranged/adapted themes from Emmanuel Charbrier's "Espana", an orchestral rhapsody. Very nice sounding organ, too!