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Kinshasa: opening of repair workshop

This week Music Fund opened a repair workshop together with and at the Institut National des Arts. For the moment, only Augustin Kadiata - who followed a three months internship with expert Yves Treuttens in Brussels - will be working in this workshop...

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6 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: repairing Steinway piano

This last week piano-expert Pol De Winter checked all the five pianos which Music Fund donated to the Institut National des Arts to see whether nothing happened to them during the transportation between Belgium and Kinshasa. He also continued to work...

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5 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: micro-credit for guitar-workshop Almaz

Today I went back to the guitar workshop Almaz (of Maurice MAZANZA), together with Jérôme Roux (economic and commercial adviser, Belgian Embassy) and Louis-Odillon Alaguillaume (vice-general director of ProCredit Bank Congo), whom I had told about Almaz...

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4 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: guitars Socklo

Together with musician Jupiter, I visited the amazing guitar workshop of Socklo in Lembas (cité of Kinshasa). Jupiter's musicians love Socklo's guitars, and I can understand this. They are original in their conception, and have a special sound. Socklo...

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3 juillet 2008

Kinshasa - creation of "AMIS de l'INA"

Today Thursday was an important day for the partnership which we started to develop between the Institut National des Arts (INA) and Music Fund. Together with the president of the FEC (Fédération des Entreprises Congolaises), Mr Albert Yuma, we convened...

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1 juillet 2008

Kinshasa - first days

I arrived in Kinshasa last Saturday 28th June together with instrument experts Pol De Winter (pianos) and Pierre Helou (wind instruments), as well as with Augustin Kadiata, who followed a 3 month internship as technician to repair wind instruments in...

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9 juin 2008

Olivier Marie at Nablus the Culture: a piano expert for Palestine

I have just spent several days in Nablus, where I visited our piano-tuner Olivier Marie and the repair and training workshop which he is setting up there together with and in the building of our partner in there, Nablus the Culture. © one of Olivier's...

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26 mai 2008

visit of ITEMM in Le Mans, school for luthiers

Today we visited the Institut technologique européen des métiers de la musique (ITEMM) in Le Mans (France) together with 3 of the apprentices who are now following an internship in music instrument workshops in Belgium: Anselmo Chissaque and Bernardo...

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10 mai 2008

apprenticeships for Congolese and Mozambican students in Belgium

Music Fund is from April to June organising another series of internships for students related to our partnerschools in Maputo and Kinshasa. © student Bernardo Matola in the repair workshop of Joris Buysse in Lokeren (B) During initiation courses in our...

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30 janvier 2008

accordeon for Gaza

This morning I visited accordeon-player Philippe Thuriot and asked him to select an accordeon from our collection which he would advise me to donate to our friends of the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza, and he selected this second-hand but wonderful...

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8 janvier 2008

video-clip on Music Fund in Kinshasa

Here you can see a short documentary which Arnaud Zajtman (BBC) and Marlène Rabaud (Reuters) made for the Belgian television RTBF on the partnership of Music Fund and the INA in Kinshasa. Music Fund is not only working in Palestine and Israel, but also...

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3 janvier 2008

Jerusalem: meeting piano-technician John Orfali

Before profiting from an extensive visite of the old city of Jerusalem, we had several meetings this morning at the Jerusalem Hotel at Nablus Road where we spent the night before. Our first meeting was with Philippe Potjes, the Deputy Consul of Belgium...

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2 janvier 2008

Nazareth-Ramallah-Jerusalem

This morning I have met with the director of the Baptist School of Nazareth, Mr Ousama Moalem, to discuss with him about the possibility of an exchange project with the Atheneum in Antwerp, so that they would host the Antwerp adolescents during their...

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1 janvier 2008

Nablus: Olivier and Pol repairing and tuning pianos

Pol and Olivier had a very long day of work in Nablus, as they wanted to tune a maximum of pianos in the music school and also at students' houses, but also wanted to prepare the pianos which were bought in Qalqilia yesterday and which arrived already...

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31 décembre 2007

from Nablus to Nazareth

I will be crossing many checkpoints the coming days, as I will be going in and out the Westbank (Palestinian territories). While Michael is continuing his percussion teaching with the students of Al Kamandjati in Ramallah and while Olivier and Pol will...

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30 décembre 2007

buying pianos in Qalqilia

Today we visited the home of another piano student of the music school of Nablus to find out about the quality of their pianos and what we should be doing about them. Olivier will need about one day work and this piano will be again in a good condition...

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30 décembre 2007

Nablus: visiting the old city

This morning we were invited by our host Sami Hammad to visit the old centre of Nablus, something I never had the time to do the last years. It was a real surprise for all of us to discover the very beautiful and lively old quarters of this city which...

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30 décembre 2007

item about us on evening news TF1

Tonight (Sunday 30th December 2007) you can see a small documentary on the evening-news (8 pm) of the French television-station TF1 (http://www.tf1.fr) about what we are working on in Ramallah and Nablus. They have sent a filmcrew with us yesterday and...

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29 décembre 2007

from Ramallah to Nablus

At noon Pol, Olivier and myself travelled to Nablus where we arrived at the music school of our partner there, Nablus the Culture. We heard several students performing and studying (piano, clarinet, trombone and ud). There were also about 8 candidates...

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29 décembre 2007

Ramallah: students making progress

I spent the morning with two of the young students of the music school Al Kamandjati, clarinetist Muntaser and violinist Mahmoed, listening to their playing and attending an interview of them for a documentary which will be broadcast tomorrow on the evening...

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