Harmonium Art museuM
Harmonium Art museuM is located in Belgium
Harmonium Art museuM
Location within Belgium
LocationKlein-Willebroek
Coordinates51°4′48.868″N 4°21′55.508″E / 51.08024111°N 4.36541889°E / 51.08024111; 4.36541889
TypeMusical instrument museum
CollectionsPump organs
FounderBen Roemendael
OwnerBen Roemendael
Websiteharmoniummuseum.be

The Harmonium Art museuM (HAM) is a museum on pump organs in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. It is located at the former Church of the Immaculate Conception in Klein-Willebroek.

The collection has been brought together by Ben Roemendael. In order to be able to show the organs to the public, he founded the museum. One can see free-reed and suction-reed organs. All instruments have been disassembled, cleaned and restored. There are eighty organs all together of which sixty can still be played on.[1]

The pump organs are originating from different countries. One suction-reed organ was built in 1872 in the United States and has two keyboards and a pipe top of Mason & Hamlin. Another, German one was made by Lindholm and has a shared left and right expression and an extension register.[2] The museum has the largest collection of pump organs of Belgian make, like from the families Anneessens, Loret, Kerckhoff and a great many more.[1]

Beside the exposition, organ music is being performed of Belgian composers like Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens and César Franck.[3] Other types of music are performed as well, like from a brass band[4] or in a constellation with other musicians, like a soprano being accompanied by a pump organ and a piano.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gluseum, Harmonium Art Museum (in Dutch)
  2. ↑ Expertisecentrum voor Technisch Wetenschappelijk en Industrieel Efgoed, Harmonium Art Museum (H.A.M.) (in Dutch)
  3. ↑ Gazet van Antwerpen, Lenteconcert in HAM op 11 april, 8 April 2015 (in Dutch)
  4. ↑ Het Nieuwsblad, Brassband Willebroek musiceert in Harmonium Art Museum, 1 December 2012 (in Dutch)
  5. ↑ Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde, Frühjahrskonzert im Harmonium-Art-Museum Archived 2018-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, 16 March 2014 (in German)
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