Church Treasures by wysiwig
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The alter piece was painted in 1904 by Anker Lund and shows Jesus with a verse from Matthew 11:28;
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
The organ harmonium dates from 1901 and was manufactured by the Beethoven Organ Company in Washington, New Jersey, U.S.A.
The church may be rather small but it should be noted that the entire population of Reykholt is sixty.
Comments (8)
durleybeachbum
Is that you in the mirror, I wonder. That is a rather antiquated instrument for the year!
jayfar
Two fab pics and a must zoom.
giulband
Good image !
sandra46
WONDERFUL WORK
Faemike55
Fabulous captures love that organ
netot
I love the harmonium, is a piece of art! The paint is beautiful too! Sixty!! that's the population of a line of 14 houses in my community!
rainbows
So ,beautiful, Sterling work. HUgs. Di. xx
anahata.c
Did you get to hear that glorious old instrument? (I'll give you a link below, so you can see someone play an old Swedish folk tune on one. You can just listen to the first few seconds if it interests you...) Those things on the bottom of the harmonium---behind the beautiful red-covered stool?---are pedals, if you didn't already know; and the player pumps them back and forth like brake pedals, to provide the air that shoots through the reeds, inside. That's why it sounds so "reedy". (I was a classical pianist, so I studied instruments for a while; this is the poor cousin to the pipe organ, the ones with the 3 story-high pipes inside of cathedrals.) A loving keepsake-feeling to this pair of shots, I love that you cropped both shots to let the main subjects dominate the pics; and that pink wall is a perfect frame for the main subjects. The "table" with cloth and candles are a perfect 'support' for that painting, too. Very intimate shots. It's a shock to to see "USA" in an icelandic church, lol, but why not. A lovely upload, very well cropped, and more glimpses into the world you saw. And, with andrea, I too wonder if that's you in the mirror of the harmonium... (Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYIwCbbcUyE If you don't already know it, those white circles above the keys are 'stops'; and when you pull them out---thus the expression "pull out all the stops," they open or close those reeds, thus creating different sounds. Kind of a pre-modern synthesizer. Organs go back centuries---hand held versions were common in the Middle Ages---and when you sit at a pipe organ in a big church? It's indescribable. You sit in this cockpit, you face 2 or 3 keyboards with a whole cabinet of stops; you have pedals below ((keys that are many feet long, for the feet---these organ makers wanted to be sure you got every limb moving!)) and it feels cloistered and verrrry strange. And when you "pull out all the stops," and hit a simple chord? The whole CHURCH shakes. I mean it shakes! Those 3 story-high pipes can knock one's socks off. I played one in a cathedral years back ((in NY State)), and my then-girlfriend, who stood at the entry to the cathedra, shouted, "Hey! That's really LOUD!!!" Then she noticed there were people praying, and said, "oop---sorry!!!" And she ran out. I told her later "nice goin'!" They let me play because there was no service going on, and besides I begged profusely. Everyone should be allowed to play a major pipe organ just once: You can't believe the sound, from just pressing a key...Anyway, this beautiful harmonium, above, is a distant cousin...)