The organ — whether concert hall or church variety — has long shown signs of becoming an endangered species. Churches have been dumping their instruments for years, and for a while the organ became so ...

It tends to get pigeonholed as a worship instrument, its grand volume sweeping over weak or silent voices in sleepy congregations. Or else it evokes the ballpark, or a creepy haunted house. Truth be ...

More than two years after a fire damaged its sanctuary, First Evangelical Lutheran Church entered the final chapter of its rebuilding last week as installation of a new pipe organ got underway. A ...

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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 affects the acoustical ...

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 ...

Stacy Tenenbaum’s film Pipe Dreams features four young organ players competing in the prestigious Canadian International Organ Competition, held every few years in Montreal. What’s striking is that ...

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 ...