visiting the organ at st mary's

This afternoon Sophie, Elanor and I went to check out the restored organ at St Mary's church downtown. There wasn't a picture on Google, but the outside of the church is here, and the choir loft is right behind the rose window pictured. The organ pipes etc are on either side of the window.

We don't know very much about church organs, but it was good fun getting to climb up into the choir loft, and it turned out that someone played some pieces on the instrument and talked a bit about how it all worked. Apparently it's quite a clever/unique instrument. We had a good view of the man playing, and S and E were very impressed that he had 3 keyboards for his hands, and another set for his feet. We also got an excellent view of the stained glass windows in the church, of which there are very many indeed!

You can read more about the restoration project on the church website here. No pics of the organ there either though.

After so much excitement we had to go for afternoon tea to calm ourselves down. :-)