Unlike the piano, a percussion instrument that produces sound when a hammer hits the strings, the organ is a woodwind. It generates sound by releasing pressurized air through valves and letting it to ...

An organ concert at All Saints’ Church in Hastings Old Town Parish will include a performance of the oldest surviving piece ...

Some homes have pianos in their living rooms, but Sabina Wilhelm's house is probably the only one in St. John’s with a much bigger keyboard instrument - a pipe organ.

A 115-year-old church echoed with music and memories one last time Sunday, as congregants gathered for a farewell service ...

An organ concert at All Saints’ Church in Hastings Old Town Parish will include a performance of the oldest surviving piece ...

Now, the functioning organ stands proudly in Pyle's living room, right next to his grand piano. The labyrinth of pipes sit in their own room — a growing collection of 1,500 tubes that he's ...

EVERY seasoned organist likes to talk about ‘managing’ a pipe organ, and I used to wonder why. Nobody speaks of ‘managing’ a piano or a piccolo. But neither of these instruments has the ...

The kids laid out the keyboard, assembled the organ’s frame and arranged the pipes in the right order — along with blowing into some of the pipes to make some noise.

The organ covers multiple stories across multiple parts of the church and every single pipe and part needs to be accessible for tuning and maintenance, which is almost a full time job.

Frederick Swann in 2004 playing the organ at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, a 6,134-pipe instrument designed by Frank Gehry and Manuel Rosales. Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times, via ...

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 ...

The spiritual sails of St. Sulpice have been filled for two centuries by its 6,600-pipe organ. Organists from around the world come to Paris just to hear this organ.