The Good Musician

St. Matthias in Budapest, Hungary was our first concert on the tour. As most churches in Central Europe, it was an accretion of centuries of building on the old foundations. Layers of Byzantine, Medieval, the Magyar chieftains resisting Attila and the various Huns. The castle and church on top of the hill are well fortified, and the only approach is over a bridge on the Danube, through a long tunnel at the base of the hill, and a steep switchback road to the castle close.

There is a four-second lag in the sound from the choir loft. That was the longest delay we experienced. The organ pipes were at the back of the small choir loft, and the organ console at the front of the loft. Our organist, David Polley, treated us to a fantastic organ concert, if a bit loud–we stood directly in front of the pipes.

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