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message. This will both improve the quality and the quantity of the data, I guess.The purpose of this site is:
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message. This will both improve the quality and the quantity of the data, I guess.The foundation for this site has been laid at the time I started to record data about pipe organs I visited, or wherever I found some information while reading about pipe organs, in a WordPerfect document. I kept doing that for some year, and that resulted in a huge amount of data.
After some time I converted the unstructured WordPerfect document into a DBase III database. From this database I was able to generate documents. This way I combined two subjects that kept my interest: pipe organs and computers. Later on I switched over to MSAccess. From there I generate the HTML files for this site. The reason for doing it like this is, that my computer resides behind a firewall; therefore it can not work as a site server.
This is site is a rather plain one. Recently I made some changes (e.g. I added maps for some countries). Some persons asked met to make for every organ builder a list of organs they worked on. Although it is really simple to query this from a database, I am not sure if I will do that. We will see. To work around this I added a search page where you can search for the name of an organ builder instead. This serves other purposes as well, hence I implemented this first.
This site is in Dutch only. Since it contains more than 2000 pages it is not possible for me to have them in English as well. I simply can not spend too much time on this. However I hope you will be able to get a clue what pipe organs are where. Besides that there are references to other site that might be in English. The main reason to have the pages in Dutch is that the major part of the pages is about Dutch organs (70%).
Straight from the beginning of this site I received response in my mail box from time to time. I kindly thank the following persons for their contributions: