The Berlin Organ Christmas


BREAKING NEWS: Somebody submitted the disc to a local radio station that transmits ALL OVER southern Ontario, they said they were interested in airing it as it is so different. Makes me nervous as I am only an amateur player… (The contributor of this text remains anonymous.)


0. The mystery 'half track of 15 seconds	Soundtrack
1. On Christmas Night, All Christians sing
2. Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
3. O Little Town of Bethlehem
4. Angels We Have Heard on High
5. Away in a Manger
6. While Shepers Watched Their Flocks by Night
7. Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel
8. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing	Soundtrack
9.Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
10. Joy to the World
11. Silent Night, Holy Night

Review

Rodney Jantzi, is the proud owner of a Berlin Organ Co reed organ. This instrument has been in use from 1904 till 2008 in Zion Lutheran Church in Wabewawa, Ontario, Canada. Rodney restored it in 2009 in a meticulous way, and this instruments now sparkles in quit a number of his performings on Youtube. In doing so he became one of the formost promotors of the Heritage of the Reed Organ.

I am not a musician, nor am I a musicologist. The best compliment I can write down is this: When listening to his recording:

I HEAR HIS SOUL !!

Thousands of miles away from here in The Netherlands, and still a strong connection.

You can experience that bonding too. Buy the disc and listen to these songs. Mind you it is one of the very few discs released in USA & Canada featuring the Reed Organ.

Merry Christmas!

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Of course there is no nr. 0 track. It is a referral to the famous words

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

by John F. Kennedy in 1963.

And the organ used in this recording is "ein Berliner"........

Ich bin ein BERLINER