Ok so sometimes you don’t need the biggest organ to make a big impression. This 180-year-old instrument sits up amongst the frescoes and is barely noticeable unless you are actually wandering around specifically looking for organs.

The organ was originally built in 1846 by Johann Georg Gröber. Too late for Mozart to have played it. Yes, Mozart did write a little bit of organ music. It’s not super popular but it’s fun to play and isn’t that what really matters?

I could not find anyone who would let me have a turn.

Specifications

Manual (C-f3)	Pedal (C-d’)
Burdun 8’	Oktavbass 8’
Gedeckt 8’	Choralbass 4’
Viola 8’	Posaune 8’
Oktav 4’
Flöte 4’
Quint 2 2/3’
Oktav 2’
Mixtur IV 1 1/3’

• Pedalkoppel
• Mechanische Spiel- und Registertraktur. Schleifladen.

This is the largest church organ in Tyrol. And one of the newest - built in 2000, presumably in the hope of attracting Nikki Webster for a star appearance.

I could not find anyone who would let me have a turn.

Specifications

I. Hauptwerk (C-g3)	II. Oberwerk (C-g3)	III. Rückpositiv (f-d3)
Prinzipal 8’	Prinzipal 8’	Flöte 8’
Voce-umana 8’ (ab cis’)	Salizional 8’	Prinzipal 4’
Hohlflöte 8’	Vox-coelestis 8’	Sesquialtera 2 2/3’ + 1 3/5’
Gamba 8’	Rohrflöte 8’	Oktave 2’
Oktave 4’	Oktave 4’	Mixtur III 1 1/3’
Spitzflöte 4’	Nachthorn 4’	Trompete 8’
Quinte 2 2/3’	Fugara 4’
Superoktave 2’	Nasard 2 2/3’
Mixtur major IV 2’	Oktave 2’
Mixtur minor IV 1 1/3’	Sifflet 1’
Cornet 8’ (ab cis’)	Terz 1 3/5’
Fagott 16’	Mixtur IV 1 2/3’
Trompete 8’	Trompette-harm. 8’
Clairon 4’	Cromorne 8’
	-Tremulant-

Unterwerk (C-g3)	Pedal (C-f1)
Gedeckt 8’	Violonbaß 16’
Spitzgamba 8’	Subbaß 16’
Prinzipal 4’	Quintbaß 10 2/3’
Gedeckt 4’	Oktavbaß 8’
Echokornett III 2 2/3’ (ab cis’)	Baßflöte 8’
Flöte 2’	Oktave 4’
Larigot 1 1/3’	Mixtur VI 2 2/3’
Scharff III 1’	Posaune 16’
Voix humaine 8’	Trompete 8’
-Tremulant-	Schalmei 4’

• Koppeln: OW/HW, UW/HW, HW/UW, HW/P, OW/P, UW/P
• Unterwerk ein/aus, Rückpositiv ein/aus
• Sperrventil Hauptwerk, Sperrventil Pedal
• Mechanische Spiel- und Registertraktur. Schleifladen. Neidhardt-Temperatur.

Most of the organ, under renovation

The Schwalbennestorgel section of the organ

This organ was built in 1869, and has sadly been silent since 2015. The good news is that you can help restore the organ to its former glory by sponsoring a pipe! But your German will have to be pretty good to work out how.

In Rüdesheim there is lots of yummy food. Here are my 5 favourite things to eat:

5. Breakfast buffet

I had a breakfast buffet every morning. At the breakfast buffet I had bacon.

4. Beef burger

For dinner I had a beef burger and it as good.

3. Wine tasting

At the wine tasting you get tokens and we got 20. With 1 token you get 1 taste of wine; there were also alkoholfrei wines. I got to try 2 different alkoholfrei wines - they ware red wine and rose. I liked rose but they didn’t have any bottles for sale so we got riesling.

2. Pretzels

We got two pretzels - one at the train station, and one at a restaurant. They taste really good.

1. Sunflower seeds

When we went on a hike we got sunflower seeds. They taste so good and it is the perfect food for hiking.

Today’s main event was hiring some €15 town bikes and heading up the Rhine to Eltville.