Historic Organs of Germany
This trip was planned as a follow-up to the organ tour I led in 2000, where we visited historic organs in France. As the plan developed, Judy and I decided that early to mid-June would be the best time for the tour, that we could visit places we had been before as well as new cities, churches, and organs, and that we needed to plan activities with a little more flexibility than we had three years before.
And we did!
Judy took charge of activities not related to organs and churches, making plans for activities that would be interesting and entertaining to people on the tour who weren’t organists. That part of the trip was very successful.
Hamburg: Jacobikirche’s Schnitger Organ
No special arrangements were necessary for the organists, because they just wanted to get their hands on the instruments!
All in all the tour was less stressful for us, and I think the most important result was the sheer fun we all had on the trip. Not that there weren’t some surprises along the way. There certainly were some. But the overall experience was great, and I hope everyone else remembers this as fondly as we do.
If you’ve stumbled onto this site and were on the trip, I hope you’ll click one of the email links and send us a description of your favorite memories. I’ll make sure to get your OK first, but some of those might become parts of this web site.
And if you have photos you want to share, send them along. I’ll make sure others get to see them.