but you can't afford it. They just redid Notre Dame with traditional methods but the cost....

It was worth it even without the big organ

Here is a link to Atlas Obscura
17,000 pipes....

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/europes-largest-pipe-organ

It is just beautiful!

Thank you for sharing them with us.

just trying to lighten the mood a bit.

And I looked it up, it's from 1688!

They have some old monuments around here.

it took to create this. Meanwhile, we are blessed that so many masterpieces have been preserved and cared for over the years.

Wonderful photos. What camera did you use?

D5200 DX 18-300 3.5-6.3 VR zoom
So about 24-400 standard 35. It close focuses to about 18 inches. It is just a ridiculous lens.

I have somewhere near 30,000 shots on the body. About 1,000 thousand rolls of film using 30 shots as an average.

The camera model and the lens are usually the first thing that pops in my head when I see photos I like. "It close focuses to about 18 inches" - sounds like an amazing lens!

Thanks for sharing those beautiful photos!

I also like pictures from the others on this feed. Places, things that I'm unlikely to see.

of the instrument. They are amazingly complex instruments and sound even more amazing in person. The organists are true masters as these things are very very hard to play. I was lucky enough to hear that very organ and tour the inner workings many years ago! Many Cathedral organs have separate groups of pipes around the inside of the facilities. The original surround sound! A co-worker of mine was from Passau and took some of us there while at business meetings in Switzerland. A truly wonderous place.

Warning..... Don't fall down the utube rabbit hole for pipe organs, you'll be there for weeks!! lol. Thank you for the memory!!

There is at least one person who tours organs in and around Germany. He plays them talks about their technical differences and the like. If you want to look up Fraser Gartshore. Quite a character. He studied music in Edinborough, I believe. He has a series of videos. He is also the musical director for a couple of small churches in North east Germany'

I would love to see the insides of that beast. I got to see one of the local organs and hold one of the pipes. Fantastic machines

Thanks for the compliment

It must have been nice to be a bishop back then. Power over everything.