First Presbyterian Church bought the last pipe organ made by the legendary Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Inc. in Boston before it went out of business nearly 40 years ago. The pipes of the organ fill a ...

SAGINAW, MI - With its golden finish shining spectacularly in the spotlight, a historic pipe organ at Saginaw’s Temple Theatre has been a gilded centerpiece and point of pride at the venue for nearly ...

Forgotten church items like pipe organs and rood screens once shaped Christian worship but are now largely unrecognized. The ...

In 2021, Holy Angels Catholic Church in Basehor, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, celebrated the blessing of its newly installed Opus 5 organ originally created by Halbert Gober of Gober Organs.

The sound of an organ is triumphant when the "Wedding March" shakes a sanctuary, and whimsical from the bygone days of "pizza and pipes," and yet the chords of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" are somber and ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2024 – The pipe organ, with its strong timber base and towering metal pipes, stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries. Even when not in use, the pipe organ ...

Going unplayed for more than three years in the atrium of the Alaska State Office Building isn’t the worst thing that could happen to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ that has been there since 1976 ...

Hoyt Sherman Place has been slumbering for over a century. In its dreams, it heard a voice calling and speaking its name. Dare it trust the music of the night? Because the Phantom of the Opera is here ...

The organ’s 10,000-plus wooden and metal pipes provided the soundtrack to some of the most memorable events in Washington National Cathedral’s history: the funerals of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

A pipe organ, Ben Keseley explained to me, is basically a box of whistles. But what whistles! And what a box! Keseley, 44, is the minister of music at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Arlington. On ...

The pipe organ stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries, and even when not in use, it affects the acoustical environment around it. Researchers performed a sine-sweep through ...