Chapter 6

“I still can’t get over how much this concert hall resembles a Gothic cathedral,” Noah said.

“I think that was the intent of its designers,” I said. “Here in the Duchy, most building materials, especially lumber, have to be imported. On the other hand we have an unlimited supply of native stone in the surrounding mountains, and the quarries have been active for some two thousand years.”

“The guy who helped me last year,” Tom said, “told me that the well-known acoustics of stone buildings were a major influence, as well.”

Indeed, the building resembled a Gothic cathedral externally and, for that matter, from the inside as well, the only difference being that the east end of the structure contained a stage rather than a choir area and ambulatory. Most of the organ pipes were highly visible as they were mounted in ornate cases attached to the east end of the building. I turned to look at the gallery organ, whose case surrounded and framed the windows high on the west wall.