27 - Sunday, September 8, 1985 - North Shore News

Kitchen
Ranger's

DON JOHNSON doesn’t settle for second best.

Johnson, pastor of Gloria
Dei Lutheran Church in
.North Vancouver, with the
help of his parishioners, has
struggled for a long time to
purchase a 12-foot pipe
organ for the church. The
instrument is the first new
tracker action organ to go
into a Vancouver area
church.

“I'm really pleased with
the organ,'’says

settled for a $25,000 elec-
tronic instrument but the
church was sold on a tracker
because of its tone and
lasting value. This organ will
be around for 200 years.’’
The decision to buy the
organ was made a year and a
half ago when the church’s
antique reed organ was in

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cross-Canada search for an
appropriate organ-maker,
the Organ Committee chose
to have Adrian Kopperjan of
Chilliwack build the instru-
ment. :
_Kopperjan has been
building organs in
Chilliwack since 1974.
Previously he learned the
organ-building trade along
with his four brothers at
their father’s small organ
factory in Holland. Later he
See Church

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ADRIAN KOPPEJAN and
son Andrew make final ad-
justments to the new organ
recently installed in Gloria
Dei Church. The organ built
by Koppejan was installed in
: the church last month and is
NEWS photos Ilan Smith ~=n0Ww ready for services.

READY TO piay beautiful music, pastor Don Johnson and
Doreen Matkovich show off a new tracker organ. The organ,
one of only a few existing in the Lower Mainland, was
recently installed in Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in North
Vancouver. A service of dedication wit! be held Sunday,
September 15 at Gloria Dei.

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