Netherlands · Instrument making; Wood craft; Dutch heritage
Orgelbouw — Nederlandse Orgeltraditie
The Dutch organ building tradition — specifically in the lineage of Arp Schnitger (CRAFT-1223 — the German master who built many organs in the Netherlands) and continued by the Dutch firm Flentrop Orgelbouw (established 1903 in Zaandam), which has built organs for the Church of the Assumption in Seattle, Harvard University, and major Dutch churches. The Dutch orgelbouwer reads the correct pipe voicing quality through a wind-pressure-and-tone combined assessment — adjusting the toe hole and languid of each pipe and reading the resulting tone onset and speech quality through a sustained listening assessment.
Risk level: Stable · Dutch organ building and music is UNESCO ICH Netherlands (2017) — on the UNESCO Representative List
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