 As I pass by, March 09
The
large Steinmeyer organ in the central Our Saviours
church in Haugesund is
beeing removed. It
was built in 1955, based on electro phneumatic
technology that has become to expensive to maintaine in
a high cost country, and has now been donated
to Poland, where organbuilders will repair the
parts and rebuild it in a catedral large enough
for it.
Sunday
March 2. it was used for the last time (picture
above, shot just as the last hymn starts). 3
days later, the polish workers have already
removed
all pipes,
including the childrens favourite: The
cymbelstar.
They plan to keep on working for until next
weekend. Then the whole construction shall be
removed.
The
organ consist of almost
3000 pipes.
The benches of the church has come handy as
a place to sort them before packing.
Until
next January, when the new Verscueren organ
( Holland) is ready for use, a small organ in
the front of the church, will be the instrument
in use. The dutch organ builders will start
mounting the new instrument in September. Before
that, the wall behind and other parts of the
original organ gallery will be rebuilt as true
to the architects drawings as possible.
I
was participating as an organist, playing
most of the service. Njål Steinsland, the
permanent organist in the church, played
the Postlude
and finished an almost 50 year long service
by the fine, but worn Steinmeyer organ.
The
harbour packhouse has soon been removed
This
week another construction from the early fifties,
the large harbor packhouse, has been removed
almost totally.
This will give necessary space for a new car
waiting and control area when we get the new
Denmark ferry April 3.
On
the Haugesund airport on Karmøy (Helganes)
a
lot of hard work is going on to remove some
hills and rocks around the southern part of
the airport. This is to fullfill the obligations
to Ryanair when they start off April 30. Hopefully
the work with the extra 400 m. runway will start shortly,
too.
When
visiting the Garpaskjer quay area,
a
sail boat rushed by
on its way northwards
today. It gave me summerly feelings, even if
the rain and wind felt different from what we
expect when seeing this kind of views.
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er markert
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