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Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #83!\n\nhttp://www.organduo.lt/podcast\n\nToday's guests are Lydia Vroegindeweij from the Netherlands, the Dutch organist and founder of OrgelKids and Erin Scheessele from the United States who helps bringing OrgelKids to America with OrgelKids USA.\n\nOrgelkids is an educational pipe organ curriculum and kit dreamed up by Dutch organist Lydia Vroegindeweij. Lydia enlisted the help of organ builder Wim Janssen to build the first and only two Orgelkids kits in existence.\n\n\u200bWith Orgelkids, young children are empowered to assemble a working two rank, 2-octave pipe organ in under an hour.\n\nOrgelkids can be deployed to schools, music festivals, Maker Faires, museums, bringing the King of Instruments to children. See below for how Orgelkids complements AGO\u2019s outreach programs.\n\nErin's son Peter is 7 years old and he loves pipe organs. He\u2019s an active member of the Eugene Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO).\n\nPeter likes to play pipe organs, but he sure would like to be able to build pipe organs, too. A Google search for \u201cpipe organ kit\u201d led Peter to Orgelkids.\n\nPeter wrote to Lydia Vroegindeweij, founder of Orgelkids in the Netherlands, asking if she\u2019d be willing to share her schematics for building a kit and for them to bring Orgelkids to the USA. Lydia\u2019s prompt reply was an enthusiastic \u201cJa!\u201d and she expressed joy that her idea of how to bring the pipe organ to children could grow and reach a wider audience.\n\n\u200bPeter is an enthusiastic ambassador for the organ, and operated a lemonade stand in 2014 benefiting the restoration of a local pipe organ. As he is still too young for most of AGO\u2019s outreach programming, Peter is eager to bring Orgelkids to his peers.\n\nIn this conversation we talk about this beautiful idea to bring the pipe organ closer to children.\n\n\u200bEnjoy and share your comments below.\n\u200b\nAnd don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.\n\nThanks for caring.\n\nRelevant links:\nhttp://orgelkids.nl\nhttp://www.orgelkidsusa.org