Van Oeckelen

Pre-owned pipe organs

Van den Heuvel is one of the market leaders in the field of pre-owned organs. Feel free to contact us if you are looking for an instrument or want to sell one. We mediate on a commission basis and offer you an all-round carefree package from mediation, dismantling to repair and rebuilding. We are also happy to take over the search for a suitable pipe organ.

Looking for a new destination for existing pipe organs

During recent decades, unfortunately, churches have been closed, demolished or transferred to a new destination. In addition to construction of new pipe organs, also organ transfer are considered as an option.

Through mediation of Van den Heuvel, several churches, music schools and private individuals, both in the Netherlands as abroad, have been able to purchase a solid built organ that was suitable for their specific situation. Van den Heuvel has a large international network with addresses of churches, organists, organ consultants who are looking for a beautiful well-built pipe organ.

If you therefore consider to find another destination for your church organ, we would like to do our utmost to realize this in good cooperation with you. We look forward to your email or phone call!

All instruments currently for sale

Bakker & Timmenga organ (1890, 17/IIP)

In 1880 founded Fokke Bakker (1842-1904) and Arjen Timmenga (1854-1920) their organ building company in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). In the eighty years of their existence as a family business they have…

Fama & Raadgever organ (1984, 9/IIIP)

In 1963 Jaap Fama (1934-2001) and Piet Raadgever (1935-2023) founded their organ and harpsicord company in Utrecht. Before they were employed by Van Vulpen. They started in the former organ…

Residence organ for sale (14/IIP)

The organ was built during the period 1987~1989 by Louis Huivenaar (the well known reed-organ restorer located at Dieren, NL) for the residence of the Schalkoort Family. Louis Huivenaar partly…

G.A. Hazen organ (1986, 12/IIIP) - SOLD

The Saint-Fransiscus church is a Roman catholic parish in Breda (NL). The building was designed by architect S.F. Steeneken in a sober modernist style. The church building will be soon…

Pels organ (1967, 7/IP)

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,…

Laycock (1877, 11/IIP) organ

1877  this organ was built by John Laycock (1808-1889) for the Ickornshaw Methodist Church in North Yorkshire (UK). 1907 the organ was moved to the Carleton Methodist Church where it…

Pels organ (1964, 7/IIP)

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…

Blank (1976, 17IIP)

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…

Van Oeckelen (1857, 19IIP)

Petrus van Oeckelen was born in Breda in 1792 as the son of the instrument maker and organ builder Cornelis van Oeckelen and Elisabeth Coenen. Around 1808 he was appointed…

Bakker & Timmenga (1904, 10Ip)

In 1904 the Dutch organ builder Bakker & Timmenga built this beautiful organ for the Reformed church of Wommels (NL). The organ was enlarged in 1916 and in 1951 the…

J.L. van den Heuvel (1979)

This organ is almost identical to the continuo organ built for Radio France. This residence organ however does not possess a transposing keyboard and is not equiped for easy transport.…

Bishop and Son (1896)

Built in 1896 by Bishop & Son (organbuilder in London and Ipwich) for the St. James Chapel in Brightlingsea (a fishing village in the Essex region northeast of London). In…