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 ...

You could probably hear it in Heaven.

FARGO — There are a hundred ways a town can be silent during a pandemic. No sounds of children in school. No sounds of laughter from a restaurant. No soundtracks from movies. On Sundays, no sounds of ...

You might think you're fancy if you have a grand piano parked in your parlor. But if you really want the ultimate musical status symbol, you can't beat a pipe organ. At least that was the case 100 ...

As electronics hobbyists we are grateful to our spouses and flatmates who gracefully tolerate all of our weird equipment and chaotic projects in their homes. But it takes a different level of ...

Buddy Boyd grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and became fascinated with theater organs and their music. Before turning 20, Boyd already was involved with organ groups, and his love for the old-time ...

Almost every Sunday for the past five decades, Roy Guenther has played the pipe organ for the glory of God. On Sunday, it was time to celebrate the glory of Roy. It was Roy’s 50th anniversary as the ...

Behind the sweeping walls of Union Terminal's rotunda, something beautiful has been holding its breath. Since the late 1980s, the train station housing the Cincinnati Museum Center has been home to an ...

The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ at the Castro Theatre is not actually a Wurlitzer organ. It hasn’t been one since 2015, when the theater’s genuine Rudolph Wurlitzer Company organ was deemed too ...

Charlie Chaplin is precariously perched atop a ladder. His character, an assistant at a pawnshop, attempts to polish the storefront. As the ladder rocks back and forth in increasingly wider swings, an ...

Bruce Stavem remembers how he felt when he become an organist for Wooddale Church and got a chance to play its Visser-Rowland pipe organ. This organ is a special instrument, Stavem said. According to ...

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