...Speaking of the importance of music at a wedding, the author continues to relate:
"The Governess of the land died and in her honor, the Governor decreed that no music should be played for an entire year throughout the land.
"A wedding had been scheduled to be celebrated during that year in one of the villages of the land. So, they asked R. Y. Segal (the Mahari"l) if - in deference to the Governor's command - should they celebrate the wedding without music. The Rabbi responded that under no circumstances should the wedding be celebrated without music, for this is the principle joy of the bride and groom; if this is impossible locally, they should go to a place where it is.
"So they did: they traveled three parsos from the village of Eipinshtein to the City of Magentza (Mainz) and there they duly celebrated the wedding with musical instruments."
ספר המנהגים (מהרי"ל) הל' עירובי חצירות אות ז
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