Jacob van Eyck: Engels Nachtegaeltje (the English Nightingale); Saskia Coolen, recorder

Jacob van Eyck’s divisions on the tune Engels Nachtegaeltje the English nightingale), from Der fluyten lusthof. Performed by Saskia Coolen, as part of the Voices of Music van Eyck project, July, 2015. Jacob van Eyck was a Dutch carillonneur, bell expert, recorder player and composer. He inherited the noble title of ‘joncker’ (or jonkheer), and was born blind. It was he who discovered the connection between a bell’s shape and its overtone structure, which enabled bells to be tuned properly. In this he had t