Pieter playing THEME 7th symphony 2nd movement by Ludwig van Beethoven

 Another of my fond memories of Pieter J.C. Vedder playing his organ... 

As an amateur, without a single lesson ever! 

Pieter was very happy on Thursday, July 25, 1999 and played the organ.Next day, we both drove to Atlanta airport, for picking up my youngest brother Jan Van den Munckhof and his wife Wilma...
Pieter started practicing on the organ again last year, after having had topical surgery on his right hand's ring finger at Ortho Georgia in Macon.

Day after surgery, looking bruised and blue... You can still see where they went inside for doing the topical surgery.

No anesthesia... just an injection and it did not prevent him from feeling the pain.

Yes, his ring has been cut... when he needed open heart surgery they tried to remove it and started cutting it! No success and now it is damaged but still cannot be taken off.

For several hours each day, Pieter had to wear this splint.

It worked out well and his finger moved again!

So... the organ downstairs got visited again.

Pieter had somehow lost the music of THEME 7th symphony 2nd movement by Ludwig van Beethoven but I found it  on line for him and he is happy again.

Our old, Dutch organ, is no longer in the home... it died after over 30 years of activity.

Pieter did once perform some brain surgery on it, by soldering tiny wires on its back board, with the actual builder on the phone. He lived in Florida at that time, during his retirement.

And it worked; Pieter always has been quite a handyman and tackled almost everything himself.