Fokker's 31-tone organ at Teyler's Museum in Haarlem

Greetings!

A brief report in today's Volkskrant provides the following info, which I translate from the Dutch:

"Because of a major remodeling in Teyler's Museum in Haarlem there is no longer room for the 31-tone organ which has been there since 1951. This organ was designed by the Dutch physicist Adriaan Dani�l Fokker. He based it on the 17th-century tuning theories of Christiaan Huygens, who divided the octave into 31 equal [gelijke] intervals. Various composers, among them Henk Badings, have written for this instrument."

Maybe somebody knows more?

Best wishes,
Dale C. Carr

Yes, the organ will be removed in the beginning of next year. Now there
are negotations with the organ builder to do this and preserve it, so it
can be restored in a new place. Presumably this will be the new music centre
with the new IJsbreker and other music organisations inside.
So the organ will lose its historic location, but we don't need to be too
sad about it, since this place can only bear a small audience, and the pipes
are also somewhat hidden.
Let me remind about the concert in the Teylers Museum next Sunday, 11 o'clock.
Joop van Goozen will play the organ and this is really the last chance of
hearing the organ there! The next opportunity won't be before 2002.

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl