Butch Ireland/Daily Nebraskan
Fred Zauder trims a board in the woodworking section of the Bedient's shop.
[PARTY! DANCE! FUN!]
— Grand Opening —
The Marina Bar
Capitol Beach
720 S. Lakeshore Dr.
477-4030
this
Thursday 19, Friday 20, Saturday 21
Music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70's
Entertainment by
CRAIG ESTUDILLO
the #1 DJ from the West Coast.
NO COVER
The Marina But there’s a catch.. .since this is
lake v Bar your dance bar, We’d like you to
I help decorate it! So, all you need
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| covers, T-shirts, concert stubs,
West "O" St. r surfboards, posters, anything
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Craftsman spans ages
to make beautiful music
Upon receiving an order, Bedi
ent says, he or an employee surveys
the site in person — every Bedienl
organ is custom-designed to blend
into and enhance its setting.
Plans for the organ are then
drawn up, and construction begins
from scratch.
The wooden parts arc cut and
fitted in Bcdient’s wood shop. The
metal for the tin-lead alloy pipes is
melted from bars of the pure met
als, formed and soldered in the
metal shop.
The entire organ is constructed
in the building’s tower. It has to be
disassembled for shipping.
Bedienl said “there’s just a
handtul of companies like us” that
hand-make tracker pipe organs.
He said his organs have been
sold all over the country. He said
the small organ he's working on
now will go to Washington, D.C.
Lincoln boasts five Bedienl
organs, two of them on the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
Bcdicnt said the chapel at St.
Mark’s-On-The-Campus, 1309 R
St., was small but reverberating, so
its organ was “designed to be a
gentle-sounding organ.” He based
the design on Italian organs, he
said.
The organ at Cornerstone, 640
N. 16th St., w'as designed to re
scmblc late 17th-century northern
German organs, he said.
“It's a very interesting type of
organ to listen to, one that com
mands the listener’s attention.”
Bedicnt said.
UNL School of Music organ
professor George Ritchie recently
recorded a tape and compact disc
of Bat h organ works on the Corner
stone organ.
A review of Ritchie’s tape in the
December issue of Stereo Review
magazine said, “The Bedientorgan
at Cornerstone in Lincoln, one ol
the finest Baroque organs in the
country, has a commanding pres
ence.”
In a description of the organ
written for a Cornerstone brochure,
Bedicnt quotes the late American
organ builder George Fisk as say
ing, “This is the oldest organ in the
country.” Fisk meant that the Cor
nerstone organ recaptures the
sound of old European organs bet
ter than any other American instru
ment, Bedicnt said.
In the mid-1960s, as a student at
UNL, Bedicnt switched his major
from engineering to music. He said
he became interested in organ de
sign while studying music.
Bcdient has a message for UNL
students, based on his own career.
“There’s lots of things that people
might not think of as a profession
that are options,” he said.
Shorts
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Flute Ensemble will perform at
S p.m. Monday, Nov. 23 in Kimball
Hall.
! he ensemble is composed of
< JNL School of Music flute majors.
The group will present works from
diverse stylistic periods. Some of the
selections will require up to eight
flutes. j
The concert will be open to the
public without charge.
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THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES
Thursday, November 19th A
(Tickets at Pickles and Dirt Cheap)
$8.00 advance $10.00 day of show T.
Doors open at 8:00 PM
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