Most tourists visiting Barcelona wouldn’t think to visit a pipe organ factory but that’s what we did today! What a treat Bill Potter and I experienced this morning when we visited the factory of Gerhard Grenzing Orgelbau, who has been building pipe organs since 1963. This morning we were picked up by Natalie, his daughter,… Read More Organ factory in El Papiol
As I was doing research for this trip to Barcelona, I read somewhere that there were three churches which had notable organs. Today we attended masses in those three churches, including the Barcelona Cathedral at 10:30 am, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi at 12:00 pm and the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar… Read More Three churches and more
Now in my seventh decade of life, I just learned something about myself. I just received a shipment of Cornet Barcelona glasses, inspired by the colorful windows of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, the basilica which I visited in 2016. Ordering these glasses are a terrible indulgence (!) especially when I consider that I should… Read More If only I knew …