SHORT HISTORY OF THE COMPANY


In 1989 founded Berend Veger and Winold van der Putten an organ makers workshop in the old contractor workshop of the father of the first. Both organ builders began from a different point of view: Veger had given music lessons for years at school and was a long time organist in many churches. He was at a young age interested in the building of musical instruments and had experience in piano building and harpsichord restorations. Van der Putten had learned organ building during his learning period with the organ makers' workshop Reil in Heerde. They renewed contact during the construction of a Reil organ in Winschoten. Plans came to found a new shop together.

Some years of preparation came before the start. In that period was the reconstruction of working place and buying of new machines etc.
In 1989 came the moment: commissions for the building of a chest organ for the well known harpsichordist Jaques Ogg and a chest organ for the Groninger conservatory and the restoration of a small church organ in the ev. –ref. Church in Gandersum [D].
This allowed them to start the workshop. Since that moment there have been constant commissions for consolidation and extension of the workshop. The workshop is very happy to be in the middle of the famous "organ garden of Europe".

The most important project until now was the making of an organ for the church in Bremen Walle. This project was a cooperation between Van der Putten, the organist in Walle Daniela Staiger Ortgies and her husband and adviser Harald Vogel. They succeeded in convincing the community to build an instrument which his consequently based on the year 1650 and took any afford, to make an as consequent as possible instrument. This included the foundation of an own foundry (together with Harm Kirschner), for casting the material on sand, also using the experiences of Goteborg.


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