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Mind you, this kind of crap is broadcast quite frequently on Dutch TV (and radio) and you'll find it also in a lot of the Dutch protestant churches.

I'm playing the Edmundson this year too (probably at 2:00 AM ;-)) - thanks to a fellow forummember.

Not quite a premiere, as Pierre Labric recorded a 'complete' in the 1970's, see here.

Have you tried here?

One of the main differences in southern (flemish) and northern use of the organ would be defined by religion; Catholic vs. Protestant. I'm not sure if the organ was meant to accompany the protestant hymns/psalms, but if it were, than as far as I know the flemish organs, that would propably not be a success.

Wouldn't that be the Wender in Arnstadt, Pierre? @Nigel, I'm not really convinced that in passed times people were or could be as 'open' to a different 'implementation' as we can/care/should (and possibly willing to 'learn to eat it'). Take for instance the organ in Gouda, by flemish builder Moreau; in fact hopeless for the 'dutch way' of the time and (as far as I know) also considered to be so (and subsequently altered-to-tasted).

No need to bitche around ...

Don't forget 'analytic' memory: knowing in detail how the composition is constructed (take for instance the right hand figure of Vierne's final symf.V - not much to 'understand', yet a lot of notes) , and 'absolute' memory: knowing every little detail as an absolute fact (my teacher in Cologne used to try me on that: which note is written in the alto on the third quarter in measure x, mein Herr?). Also, learning a very (very) difficult piece by heart may be easier to play than playing it from score; once it's in memory, one can focus on the music (if you're relaxed enough that the piece is in your memory (which it is, just take care to 'get it back'). But one can sometimes be jealous on those pianists who learn a Rach.3 in a week ...

And then there is Grauhof, Houdan and .

Minor details: Helmond is only half 'baroque' (1772 btw), pedals and borstwerk are +/- 1862 style. And now my number 1: St. Maximin

Some Italian - though maybe not strictly 'baroque' - and Spanish sounds ...

Did you also ask for the cost and the calculation? 'Their' opus 1111 (a restoration of a 1863/4 Ibach,III/P/41) is said to cost about 1 million euros; and, as the fundraisers say, for that the parish gets an instrument that's almost perfect for the organworks of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms

Bring in Gordon F***ING Ramsay in the organworlds kitchen ???

Too bad 'our host' may only deliver tuba's to the continent however good they are; why not let him build an entire instrument?

Don't forget to take a lot of pictures of the transept division (diaphones) while they're still there

Nice picture, but, uhm, where exactly is the 'stern'?

Pff., inpired by a Norwegian pullover?

Just over a hundred years ago *someone* dealt with a similar issue ...

That depends also on the rest of the console; there are organs in Holland which for me are hardly playable with only 3 manuals because of the pedal and bench 'construction' (or lack of it). On the other we have many organ-ists/-experts/-consultants who have mutliple smilitarities with orang-utans/baboons

Depending on the quality he might even be stopped ...

What would be the need for a Silbermann copy, when having a real one (is it?) available in the Domkirche not so far away?

I think the ever-so-historically-well-informed-and-or-inspired-dutch-organbuilders have just discovered the pencil

Transept case in W........?

This one surely takes some beating ...

Virgil Fox on the Wanamaker in a somewhat setting ...