The De Koff organ of the Hervormde Kerk in Hagestein was inaugurated on November 18, 1920. This completely newly built organ replaced an old cabinet organ, which was in poor condition. The soberly designed organ case is beautiful on the organ gallery and in the church. During the last church restoration, the pine organ case with gallery, along with other parts of the church interior, were repainted in oak imitation. The entire interior has thus become a beautiful visual unity. The De Koff organ was restored in the years 1968-1969 by organ builder A.H. de Graaf from Leusden.

At the beginning of 2021, a plan was drawn up to restore the organ. The Bourdon 16 will return to the manual and the original transmission will be restored. The Octaaf 2 which took the place of the Bourdon 16 will be moved to a newly made side block at the front of the windchest.

In the first week of January 2022, the organ was disassembled and transferred to the workshops in Dordrecht. The restoration of all the parts has started there.

The Bernard Pels & Sohn company built this organ for the chapel of the Overduin care center whereby the famous Dutch organist Feike Asma acted as consultant. On July 14th, 1967 Feike Asma inaugurated this pipe organ. The Pels-organ, which is in good condition, was well maintained by this company until the bankruptcy of Pels & Van Leeuwen in 2017. The organ is dismantled and assembled in the assembly hall of the organ builder in Dordrecht. There you can see and play the instrument!

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For futher information:
Jan L. van den Heuvel – Orgelbouw bv
Amstelwijckweg 44
3316 BB Dordrecht
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1964 the organ building company Pels & Son from Alkmaar (NL) built this new organ for a chapel in Bergen, North-Holland. 2010 the organ was sold to the auditorium De Dorsvloer in Spijkenisse (NL). Organ builder Pels & Van Leeuwen worked in the organ and the stop list was changed (Mixture became Octaaf 2’) as well as the pipe scaling of the Prestant 4’ and Octaaf 2’ was made wider to the treble. In January 2011 followed the inaugural concert. The auditorium De Dorsvloer was sold recently and J.L. van den Heuvel-Orgelbouw received the order to find a suitable new room for this nice instrument. The organ is dismantled and stored in the organ builders storage in Dordrecht.

Download the brochure for more detailed information.

Further information:
J.L. van den Heuvel – Orgelbouw bv
Amstelwijckweg 44
3316 BB Dordrecht
T: +31 78 617 95 40
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The organ in Sionskerk of the Hersteld Hervormde Gemeente in Ridderkerk will be the third organ that we construct for Ridderkerk. In 1972 the organ of the Reformed Singelkerk (32/IIIP) was completed. In 1980 we placed a French-romantic organ (34/IIP) in the Bethelkerk of the Netherlands Reformed Congregation

The Sionskerk was opened in March 2015. The church building, built in brick in classical style, designed by architect Born, can accommodate around 700 people. The Van den Heuvel organ gets a place above the pulpit. The design of the organ case, just like the pulpit, is in late nineteenth-century, early twentieth-century style. The organ case and the gallery will be made of oak.

The instrument will have 29 speaking stops on Great, Swell and Pedal. We expect to be able to deliver the organ in 2021.

Latest photo update: 3 december.

When the old village church of Werkendam was bombed at the end of the Second World War, the Witte organ from 1865 was also destroyed. The new church, built in 1952, was designed by the architects Nielsen and Spruit. One year after the construction of the new church, the Willem van Leeuwen firm in Leiderdorp was commissioned to build a new mechanical organ (opus 300) with a vertical slider system. Willem van Leeuwen was already oriented towards the historical organ in this time in the organ movement and it is special that he also builds a mechanical organ with a great, a positive and a pedal. Unfortunately the used the material was of poor quality. The organ case, for example, was made of spruce wood studs and frameworks with thin plywood panels.

On the left you see the vertical slider system as used in Werkendam. At the bottom of the picture is the channel grid with a solid (!) wooden cover plate. The slider system is placed on top of that. This consists of a vertically placed beam with a pertinax slider on each side. Above the moving slider a fixed pertinax slider has been placed to compensate for the height difference. A cap clamped against the sliders, which consists of a pertinax bottom plate with a bakelite cap. When a key is pressed, the wind from the cancel flows into the vertical beam, through the movable slider, flows through the cap back into the beam to flow up into the pipe grids.

At the time of delivery, 8 of the 20 stops were reserved. In 1963 Van Leeuwen added two stops: a Fagot 16' was added to the Pedaal instead of the originally planned Octaaf 4' (which would already have been replaced by a Schalmei 4' in 1958), and a Roerfluit 4' was added to the Rugwerk, placed in place of the planned Quintadeen 8 '. On the Hoofdwerk a Cornet III took place instead of the planned Dulciaan 16 '. The following year, Pels & Van Leeuwen will fill the remaining vacancies.

In 1972 the organ was restored by Pels & Van Leeuwen, where wind chests and mechanisms were partially restored and the organ got a new oak case with a more elegant design. Three new stops were also placed. On the Pedaal the Spitsgedekt 16' was replaced by a oak Subbas 16' from Van Gelder, from the Willemskerk in The Hague, on the Hoofdwerk the Trumpet was replaced. Around 1980, the Cornet was replaced by a 5-ranked specimen from Groot-Ammers, which was put in storage. In 1974 the blind carvings were applied and the organ was  completed under the advice of the then organist Frans van Tilburg, who played the organ from 1957 to 1984.

In 1976, the firm K.B. Blank & Zoon built a new organ (II / P, 17 voices) in an auditorium of the Nieuwe Westerbegraafplaats in Amsterdam.

The fraçade design took full account of the specific architecture of the auditorium. The organ was built behind a wall, only the façade protruded through it. When rebuilding the organ, the arrangement and the organ case will therefore have to be revised. This gives the buyer the necessary freedom in terms of arrangement and design. The organ was disassembled by Van den Heuvel-Orgelbouw and stored in Dordrecht.

Further information:
J.L. van den Heuvel – Orgelbouw bv
Amstelwijckweg 44
3316 BB Dordrecht
T: +31 78 617 95 40
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In 1872 the firm of L. van Dam and Sons placed a new organ with two manuals and pulldown pedals in the Dorpskerk of Nunspeet. It had 17 speaking stops. It was originally placed at the west side of the church. At the begin of the 20th century the firm of Van Dam & Bergmeijer replaced the Clarinet with a Voix Céleste. After the enlargement of the church the firm of Leeflang relocated in 1960 the organ into the new part of the church.

In the years 1967/1968 the instrument was adapted to the spirit of that time and enlarged. Consultant was Wim van der Panne. A independant pedal division was added, pedalcouplers, a new windsupply system with movable windchests bottoms. The windchests grids recieved ply wood toppings on both sides. Sliders were renewed with a spring system. Also the Hoofdwerk windchest was re-organized wereby the Boudon 16 and Violon 16 were removed to make place for a Mixtuur IV-VI. The Voix Céleste was also removed and its spot was taken by a Cymbel and a narrow scaled Dulciaan both on its own slider. Key- and stopaction were modernized. The organ was inaugurated on January 25, 1968. It was played by Wim van der Panne and G. van Campen.

In December 2017, the contract was signed for a complete restoration of the organ. Organ consultant Herman G. Kamp will supervise the project. In addition to the necessary restoration work, necessary sound improvements are also being made. The original sound of the instrument will be partially restored by undoing the works that have seriously affected the sound. Later (valuable) additions will be maintained and, where necessary, improved. The work will be inspired by Van Dam's original concept, but without extensive reconstruction or copying of other Van Dam instruments.

The Flentrop company built a new organ in 1951 for the Reformed Church in Yerseke. The façade is a design by the architect J.W. Janzen. The instrument in the Reformed Church of Yerseke is a very solidly built organ. It was designed and built at a time when a major change in organ building took place (a refocusing on the mechanical "baroque" organ type). It is one of the earlier organs in which Dirk A. Flentrop presented his knowledge for this type of organ that he built according to the mechanical slider chest system. This organ has a beautiful sound and the pipe scaling is generous, it is definitely not a neo-baroque sound.

Despite the very characteristic elements and qualities, there are also weaker points. The quality of the reed stops is unfortunately below the level that is nowadays considered desirable. The sound development is certainly characteristic of the construction period, but this is nowadays done differently (more 'user-friendly' and more fitted to contemporary use in the worship service).

In 1975/76 the organ was transferred by the builder to the new west wall of the church. A pneumatic pressure Tremulant was built in by Flentrop and the reed stops were re-worked. The Nijsse company carried out major maintenance work in 2007. Whereupon the Spitsgedekt 16 of the pedal was replaced by an oak Bourdon 16. Again, the reed stops were re-worked. Unfortunately without the desirable result because the reed stops were still unstable.