An electric organ takes samples of different pipe sounds, so what you’re playing is a recording.” Everything, from the keys, to the “wind box,” to the pipes, has to be in top-notch condition to create ...

SO TWO YEARS AGO NOW, IT HAS BEEN THREE YEARS, THREE MONTHS AND THREE DAYS SINCE A FIRE DESTROYED ONE OF OUR STATE’S ICONIC COMPANIES, DOBSON PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS WORKSHOP IN LAKE CITY, BURNED TO THE ...

The historic Temple Theater in Meridian hosts movies and live events for Lauderdale County and features a restored grand theater organ. We travel to Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church to talk with ...

The appeal of rattling church rafters turned John Ahern toward the pipe organ. Granted, Ahern, 17, doesn’t want church walls to collapse when he plays chords during a hymn, but he likes the power. “I ...

It's not exactly how you want your church's organist to feel after Sunday morning worship. "Two of the most recent directors of music told me that on Sunday afternoons they used to go home and cry ...

The pipe organ at Claremont United Church of Christ has few peers in Southern California. With 4,041 pipes and 54 stops, it’s a little sister to the world-renowned 6,125-pipe, 72-stop organ at Disney ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Masonic Temple is the largest Masonic Temple in the world, and one of its finest jewels may be a nearly 100-year-old pipe organ that ...

If you pass by too quickly, you might miss it. Tucked away in a small plaza on the northeast corner of East Saint Clair and Massachusetts Avenue, a sign reads "Goulding & Wood Pipe Organ Builders, ...

BRATTLEBORO -- On the National Register of Historic Buildings, the eight identical slate-sided factory buildings still dominate the town of Brattleboro like Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

The restoration of elaborate church pipe organs in Oaxaca to their former Baroque glory. Centuries ago Catholic religious orders from Spain created a Baroque culture among the Indians of the Mexican ...

For over 40 years, Gideon Shamir, 82, was the only organ builder in Israel. He searched for an apprentice to whom he could pass on his legacy and knowledge, but never found anyone with the patience to ...