On S's birthday, I got to do this:
This is what happens when an introvert has the pleasure of knowing an enthusiastic extrovert: the extrovert isn't afraid of using the telephone to call strangers and ask for favors for the introvert and her 95-year-old mother-in-law, the latter who grew up attending school in the second-floor classroom at the Marienmünster in Dießen. Thus it was that, after raiding H's shoe collection for a pair of shoes with appropriate heels and non-gummy soles, I got to go, along with the extrovert and assorted family and friends, to tickle the ivories (well, the woods) of the gorgeous organ at the Dießener Marienmünster. The organ was built ca. 1739 by Caspar Koenig, renovated in 1878, and restored and expanded by Orgelbau Schmid in the 1980s. Thanks to B for arranging the organ visit. The organist told me how wonderful American organs are compared to German organs, and I told him about how wonderful German organs are compared to American organs.
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| H's girlhood school classroom is ~below the arrow |
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| The view from the loft. Wave to the family and friends down below! |
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