The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1946, Qupperneq 19

The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1946, Qupperneq 19
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN 17 tf-afun Bay BuildU Orujati ★ Stewart Kolbeinson at the organ To enter the Steve Kolbein- son farm house near Kindersley, Sask., would put you in mind of the stage at the intermission of a symphony concert Included in the line-up of musical instruments is a pipe organ which Stewart Kolbein- son, a son, installed himself. Among the other instruments are, a bass viol, two guitars, a small harp, a clarinet, no less than seven violins and a grand piano. One of the violins, pride of Mr. Kolbeinson’s heart is a Testore, made about 1737 and valued at $1,300. That figure is what Mr. Kolbeinson refused for it recently. There are a couple of radios and a phonograph at- attachment with several vol- umes of classical and semi- classical recordings. Steve Kolbeinson comes of Icelandic stock and bought a farm here in 1929 after homesteading in the Alsask district in 1909. The family is quiet and all the members are hard working, good farmers with a genius for music, any kind of music. Organ Interest But to get back to the organ. Stewart can’t tell you just when or how his fancy turned to organs and their construction. “I guess I was always interested in them”, he says. “From the time I was a little fellow I loved their tone and used to listen to them every chance I got. Then I started to read about them in books and magazines — there’s a lot of material if you know where to look for it, and want to badly enough. I got a lot of preliminary information that way.” In recent years he has put that infor- mation to work, too. He spent a couple of winters in Toronto working with Cas- savant Freres, tuning organs in the great churches of the east, and getting a thorough grounding in their construc- tion and installation. He made valuable contacts with organ builders and masters in various lines, and all this he has found useful in his own unique enter- prise. He keeps his organ tuned to con- cert pitch. In 1938 he decided to build an organ of his own in the farm home. A long music room was added to the south wall of the building, both to accommodate the console of the organ and to act as a sounding room for its tone. Another room, 10 feet square and 13 feet high, was added to the east wall to house the pipes themselves. Cyril Robbins, master organ builder of Toronto, was consulted, as was William F. Legg of Burford, Ont., and Mr. Legg stopped off for a couple of weeks to help Stewart with the actual installation. Two Weeks' Job It took just a couple of weeks to com- plete the whole assembly. During that time they installed the wind-chest, specially built by Cyril Robbins in To-
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