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is the story of the flutist 26 october 2007 >Edit on her new flute on Amsterdam TV The purpose of this site is to inform people about
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Mayer Edit Edit
van der Burg-Mayer was born as Mayer Edit on augustus 4th 1972 in Cegléd in
Hungary. And then
came april 14th 1989, everything
ended in one terrible blow on the head. Edit got her first brainsurgery by Dr
Vajda János and Dr Lekka Norbert, she
was 2 weeks in coma! The promissing
young flute-player was not able anymore to walk, to sit, to eate,
to speak nor to play the flute!
She was paralized on one side.
After a few weeks a fellow student came to visit her in the hospital
and asked her to do This or that . . . .
Edit just cried, she could not
do anything at all. From
that moment on she became better little by little. She learned again how to talk,
to walk and to eat, and
january 8th 1990 she had her second brainsurgery by the same specialists. Edit
learned English with Bori Martina, she learned to sing again and sang a few
times in Vox Europae (a european choir) where Theo was singing too! And almost
every day she did gymnastic excercises to improve the right side of the body,
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Edit van der Burg-Mayer NewYear
1995-1996 she met Theo at her sisters house, and in april 1996 she came for
the first time for the first time to visit Theo in Uithuizermeeden. In 1998 Edit and Theo came, through Jannette Wijk, in contact with Maarten Visser and his Flutestudio in Amsterdam. He invented, designed and realized for her a flute that can be played with one hand. And on augustus 2nd 1999 Edit's dream came really true: She can play flute again on this unique one-hand flute. In oktober 2000 Edit got a son, Theodor, who caused also her left wrist to be overused. Another problem that was. But also this problem she solved, and she is playing happily again. And since her 2nd place on the National Flutecontest in 2002 and a first place a year later she is extra inspirered to reach more. This year june (2006) she met David Nabb from Nebraska, who is playing the saxophone with one hand. He interviewd her and this interview appeared april 2007 in the American flutemagazine THE FLUTIST QUERTERLY.
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More about Edit She plays regularly together :
= In the Abony Orchestra
(H)
= In the Albertirsa Orchestra
(H)
= She plays sometimes together
: =
In the Damster Stedelijk Harmonie Orkest DSHO in
Appingedam =
She gets flute lessons from : * She is looking for a good orchestra and or ensemble to play in
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The First Flute
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The ´old´ Flute is originaly a silver
Yamaha-411 II 925. The summer of 2000 the flute has undergone
one more change to make it stronger, and also more sure in the Dis and
Es. In the first part of March 2003 Maarten
Visser has made another improvement, now to prevent the U-bent
mouthpiece to fall down due to the pressure of the mouth. It has become a fantastic instrument,
and you have to be very good to be able to play it.
Foto Paul Wernekinck |
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The
New Flute
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The new Flute is the Altus AS1007EB
with a .925 sterling silver body and Silverplated keywork. This flute has a B- foot and will be more robust, stronger and lighter than the first one. All experience and ideas from the first flute and from other instruments are brought together in this flute. Also the case and the bag will be build with more efficiency so this flute can go as handluggage in the airplane. Maarten Visser has put all his skill in it to make this instrument to be a Stradivarius among the flutes. This is the flute before Maarten Visser has rebuilt it. 2 may 2007
Maarten presented the flute to Edit, see pictures. The president of Altus
Co., Shuichi Tanaka is not only a master–flutebuilder, but also fluteplayer.
His prefers the flutes from the middle of the 19th century. Louis
Lot, Bonneville, Lebret are flutebuilders who inspired him. Every Altus flute is a
handmade artpiece. The tone of the Altus flutes is rich and elegant. Model 1007 has a solid sterling silver (925/000) headjoint, body and foot joint and silverplated keywork. De headjoint is handmade. |
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With many thanks to:
1.
My surgeons: Dr. Vajda János first surgeon and Dr. Lekka
Norbert second surgeon 2.
My mother: Mayer Istvánné, Lídia 3.
My father: Mayer István 4.
My sister: Csobánné Mayer Ilona 5.
My daily fisiotherapist: Ottleczné Kovács Klára 6.
My psychologist: Királymezei Ági 7.
My accupunkturist: Dr. Baranyi Klára 8.
My speech-therapist: B. Tóthné Patonai Ildikó 9.
My gymnasticsteacher in Cegléd: Józsáné Anikó 10.
My gymnasticsteacher in Szeged: Dr. Gaálné Soós Rita 11.
My neurologist: Dr. Halász Péter Professor. 12.
My singingteacher in Budapest: Nyilas Tünde Mária 13.
My fisiotherapist: Formanek Tamás 14.
My friend and husband: Theo van der Burg 15.
My flutespecialist: Maarten Visser |
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2003 20th National Dutch Flutecontest It is not possible, but yet she does it! Edit
van der Burg-Mayer wins Gold
On Saturday April 5th Edit van der Burg-Mayer won the
first prize in
the 20th National Flute contest in the category C (17-33 years old). The finals of this contest for non-professional
flute-players from Belgium and the Netherlands were Conservatory of Music in
Tilburg. “It is not
possible to reach this high level on a one-hand flute” is the opinion of many flute-experts, but yet Edit does it! For a moment she was getting the nerves,
when the announcer said just before Edit started, that the young
composer Marlijn Helder of her first piece ´Waarom?´ (`Why?`) was in the
audience. But she played this
piece, and also the `Hungarian
Fantasy` of A.F. Doppler with so much feeling and warmth, such a beautiful tone and fabulous
finger-technique that the jury gave her the first prize. Edit was accompanied in the second piece
by Edzo Bos from Groningen, who won earlier this year first prize on the
Northern (Dutch) edition of Princes Christina Concourse. Marlijn Helder herself was very pleased
with Edit, and the way she played
´Waarom?´.
2002 19th National Dutch Flutecontest Edit
van der Burg reaches 2nd place
on National Flutecontest Flutist Edit van der Burg from
Uithuizermeeden has reached a honorable second place during the Dutch
National Flutecontest After their successfull trip with seven concerts
in Hungary, it was now the Final of the Dutch National Flute Contest. With a beautiful sound, full of self
confidence Edit played the Sonate part 1 & 2 of Poulenc and the
Vocalise of Rachmaninoff, completely
different pieces of music to show what she can play to Jury and
audience. Before the prizes were presented to the winners, the
organizing committee praized Edit, because she plays everything just
with one hand. The Second place was for Edit and Edzo a very good
result, behind the winner Marieke van der Vijver from Amsterdam. |
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NEWS ·
There is since august 2006 an ·
The new flute for Edit has been ordered at
Maarten Visser (see The New Flute).
This with the help of the Muziekotheek, the Prins Bernhard fonds and Gasunie. ·
Edit and Theo have sold their house in
Uithuizermeeden. · Since april 18th they live in their own house on the Szélmalom zug in Cegléd |
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Concert ·
(18 october 2007 in Cegléd ·
(23 october 2007 in
Albertirsa · |
Program
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♫ The first CD (2001) named EDIT is a recording in the Mariakerk
of Uithuizermeeden (NL) ♫ The second CD (2005) is:
EDIT 2 and is a
concert–CD recorded in Budapest (HU) ♫ The price of the Cd’s is € 10,00 / HUF 2.000,-- They are for sale by Edit & Theo vd Burg ♫ CD photographs in the Mariakerk:
♫ CD photographs in Budapest
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Maarten Visser Maarten Visser, The Flute Specialist Maarten Visser is a
well known instrumentbuilder. The
musician is number one, not the
technology. He can really
imagine what are the problems of a disabled musician. He is not afraid to design and make
'strange' constructions, and to
invent new solutions, as long as it
helps the ‘customer’ to play his or her instrument again. For Edit he had to solve lots of
inpossibilities to help her play the glute again. De Fluitstudio is his company, his workplace in Amsterdam |
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Links
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Maarten Visser, De Fluitstudio Specialist in individual adjustments on windwoodinstruments ·
De
Muziekotheek Help
for disabled musicians at individual adjustments on instruments ·
David Nabb Onehand Saxophoneprofessor
in Nebraska (USA); the initiator
of the International Forum ·
International
Forum
International
Forum on Adaptive Musical Instruments for
Persons with Disabilities ·
All The Way Music All The Way Music company for artiests
with a handicap ·
edit.van.der.burg@xs4all.nl The Emailaddress of Edit · From an old Hungarian flutist we got the
story and picture of Count
Rebsomen
who also played a onehand flute in the age of Napoleon. This was
however a complete different type of flute, with in only holes for the
fingers. This was for him expanded with keys for the
lefthand-part. This flute still
exists and is to be found in the collection of Peter Spohr in Frankfurt am
Main. ·
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Edit and Maarten
Visser on may 2nd 2007 Edit for the first time
Theodor at school Theo in 2004 Marathon of Barcelona Szélmalom zug 13 Behind the house
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