Organ music for 24 note keyboard?

[Bruce.Simonson]

Greetings,

Some of you may have heard of the Orgelkids Project, which teaches children (and adults) about the wonder of the organ. Basically, the cornerstone of this project is a two octave pipe organ, with two ranks, that can be put together, played, and dismantled by 8- to 12-year-olds in an hour. There are also wonderful instruction materials that go with this organ kit as well.

I'm thinking about suitable literature to play on this two octave keyboard, C to C" (without C#), and am hoping to find some lovely Bach and similar. I haven't found anything though - most of the BWV pieces for keyboard manual (no pedals) span at least 3 octaves.

Does anyone know of repertoire that works within two octaves, either by design, or by arrangement? My hope is to find inspiring pieces that can be played on this instrument - you know, an awesome Bach fugue would be marvelous, and a prelude or two, and some chorales would be nice.

Or something cool, not necessarily Bach, would be great as well.

-Bruce

PS: Here's a link to the Orgelkids USA website - spend some time checking it out, I think you might be impressed (I am):

http://orgelkidsusa.org/

And here's a site with a video of the original designer and builder (Wim Janssen) putting the kit together (scroll down to the bottom third of the page to find the video):

http://orgelkids.nl/wim-janssen-desi...organ/?lang=en

And a video from the Netherlands non-profit organization that is leading the project:

https://vimeo.com/166271700

PPS: Full disclosure - I'm not affiliated with the Orgelkids USA or Netherlands projects, but I am impressed by them.

[fffaaa]

Lovely lovely project!

I recently wrote a small article on repertoire for small keyboards (feedback welcome), you might find some of it stimulating. If you are interested, I can run the analysis on a different body of work, I just need MIDIs as inputs.

Other than that, I can see two options:

1. dive into the existing portative organ literature (example)
2. pick recorder/flute duets (like this one by Händel - score is on youtube too), they should do quite well on on the Orgelkids

[Havoc]

I have seen this in real life and it is indeed a great way to get kids involved. But it takes quite a time to put together and I think it works best in small groups.