N E W   Y O R K, June 22 -- To hear Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the kind of organ for which it was written is true joy to Kent Tritle. "That has been, for many people, ...

Mark Hayes tunes the 40-year-old pipe organ at Southside Baptist Church, which will mark the anniversary of the organ with a concert Sunday at 4 p.m. (Bernard Troncale/Birmingham News) Walking into ...

The Rev. Dan Collison, worship arts pastor at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, is proud of his church's pipe organ. Weighing in at a whopping 40 tons, it is thought to be the largest tracker organ -- ...

Edwin Ohl will listen to the electric organs that are being designed and built in many American churches and concert halls. He will appreciate the workmanship that goes into them and the sounds they ...

When composer Nathan Barr found the instrument he had been looking for, he built a studio for it. Barr (“True Blood,” “The Americans”) collects unusual musical devices, especially mechanical ones from ...

Even as church attendance declines nationwide and pipe organs fall silent in many sanctuaries, Spokane has managed to keep the music alive. The city’s community of organists – supported by groups like ...

Anybody who’s never experienced a big pipe organ concert in a cathedral has missed something special. The pipe organ is — and has always been — the biggest and most complicated musical instrument of ...

Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.

Pity the poor pipe organ. The behemoth instruments are often thought of as fusty relics of classical music — heard only in churches, vintage horror movies and increasingly fewer baseball stadiums. But ...

Arts on the Square in Harrisburg will host a New York City organist to provide a “dramatic and poignant” accompaniment to a classic silent film. Jason Roberts, New York City organist and faculty ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A couple of classic silent horror films — "Phantom of the Opera" and "Nosferatu"--screen at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for Halloween. The real star of the events, however, is the ...