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18.04.2015 General News

Mfantsipim Gets Johannus Organ

18.04.2015 LISTEN
By Daily Guide

Church Organs Ghana limited, sole dealer of Holland- made Johannus organs in West Africa, has donated GHC90,000 worth of Johannus-branded hybrid digital/pipe organ to Mfantsipim school in cape coast, Central regional capital.

The instrument, donated by founders of the company, Kofi Esson and James Ato Scott-Bennin - both old students - replaces the school's pipe organ which had not been functional for some decades now.

The company also rewired the school's assembly hall and engaged a team of Johannus specialists from Holland to complete the installation and tuning of the instrument.

Through the gesture, Church Organs Ghana Limited seeks to introduce the instrument to Ghanaian churches and institutions due to the unique sound it produces as compared to ordinary organs and pianos.

In an interview with Mr. Esson on the sidelines of the school's 139th Founders' Day celebration - during which the organ was officially handed over - he said the gesture was their contribution to further promote all-round education at Mfantsipim.

The 139th Founders' Day was under the theme, 'Celebrating the Life and Legacies of Rev. A. R. P Batrop.'

Speaking on the theme, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, Omanhen of Essikado Traditional Area, British Sekondi, in the Western Region - who is an old student of the school (MOBA 1969) - paid glowing tribute to Rev. Batrop.

He quoted Rev. W.T. Balmer, headmaster of the school from 1907 to 1910 as saying, ''If Mfantsipim can claim a martyr, it should be Rev. A. R. P. Batrop,' and he certainly deserves a top place on the list of founding fathers of the Mfantsipim of today.'

He described Rev. Batrop as someone who believed in the ability of Africans and showed it in many ways - one of which was the acceptance of 'Dwen Hwe Kan' an Akan injunction meaning 'Think Ahead,' as the motto of the school while many institutions had theirs in Latin.

Nana Nketsiah observed that through the sweat of such founding fathers, Mfantsipim had become an epitome of excellence and African identity adding, 'There are schools and there are schools; Mfantsipim is the school.'

GNA

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