Jan Van Der Stad:  

CLASS OF 1998
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Pompton plains, NJ
Newton, NJ

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Jan is from Norwich, Ontario. Jan's schools...Expand for more
include Netherlands Christian High School.
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Anyone in Ontario interested in these gold painted organ pipes?  Suitable for a small facade.  Note, two pipes on far right not included.
Jan Van Der Stad's album, Mobile uploads
Jan Van Der Stad's album, Mobile uploads
In the Swell division of the same organ.  Here I am tuning the 2' Flautino with a cone tuner...the way cone tuned pipes should be tuned.
Tuning the same organ many years later, after Henry Van Seters' passing away.
Ontko Pipe Organs magnum Opus. 4 keyboards and pedal, 71 ranks.  This organ was installed in 1992 and used regularly for organ and choral concerts.  The low-profile console uses 1" square luminous touches as stop controls.
Playing organ at the church I grew up in as a young teenager.  2 manual, 18 rank pipe organ built by Henry Van Seters (former curator at West Point, NY Cadet Chapel)
Installing the Great division pipework.
The "control system" or "brains" of the organ.
Installing the Great division pipework.
Close-up of organ console and case.  The Swell division is in the lower portion behind the expression shads (venetian blinds). The Great is in the upper portion.  This church was told by several pipe organ builders that the
Mounted Cornet, made from both new and used pipes.
Philadelphia Lutheran Church, Dallas, NC.  I helped Olivia Margaret Ontko with installation, voicing, and tonal finishing. 2 keyboard, 15 rank organ.
Jan Van Der Stad's album, Ontko Pipe Organs Projects
Jan Van Der Stad's album, Ontko Pipe Organs Projects
New schwimmers regulator
Close-up of the organ case.
Organ Case at Christ Episcopal Church, Savannah, GA.  John Wesley and George Whitefield both pastored this church in the 1700's.
My "office" for most of this week...
Just finished tuning the  Reuter pipe organ installed 2014 at the Maranatha Free Reformed Church in Hamilton.  Both of my former grade 5 teachers, where I grew up in New Jersey, now attend this church.  At that time I never
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