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 ...

John Nordlie's musical artistry is unique in this era of music streaming and digital downloads. Part craftsman, part engineer, part dreamer, Nordlie has meticulously produced more than 50 pipe organs, ...

To some lovers of classical sounds, organ music seems irremediably goyish, despite outstanding achievements by such Jewish composers as Aaron Copland and Arnold Schoenberg in writing for the so-called ...

Coined as the “king of instruments” by Mozart, the pipe organ has an extensive history behind its use and creation. It has undergone many transformations throughout the centuries, however, one thing ...

Hidden in an old converted warehouse in the West Seventh neighborhood of St. Paul is a pipe organ looking for a good home. It has about 900 pipes, a case made of American walnut, an African zebrawood ...

In just ten years, the Walt Disney Concert Hall has become one of the most recognizable landmarks in L.A., but the Frank Gehry designed venue doesn’t just look good. The concert hall’s organ (which we ...

If you’ve attended a church service in Northeast Ohio, chances are you’ve heard a Schantz Organ. The Orrville company that makes pipe organs is marking 145 years in business and is now under its ...

Allen Organ Co. crossed space-age technology with the centuries-old ring of a pipe organ, and the results are still reverberating 36 years later. Allen’s Digital Computer Organ, released in 1971, was ...

Students involved in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Organ Studio had chances to try out instruments at an Armstrong County church, then at notable locations in Connecticut and New York City.

Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an ...