Only ardent music historians know the difference between a portative organ, a small medieval instrument on which only a single melodic line could be played, and a positive organ, a larger device from ...

JERUSALEM — After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world roared back to life on Tuesday, its ancient sound echoing through a monastery in ...

Thomas Fielding, who grew up in Elida, is traveling to various churches in the area, including St. John Catholic Church in Lima, to update the Organ Historical Society’s database of historic pipe ...

One of the most unique concerts I played in 2022 took place at the Lake Leelenau RV Park in northern Michigan. The owner of this park, a kindly widower in his 80s, is a lover of pipe organs and organ ...

George Eastman House North Organ Project (all images courtesy the George Eastman House) Each morning as he sat down to breakfast, George Eastman would be serenaded by live pipe organ music played by a ...

The music room at Whitehall showcases, among other things, a floor-to-ceiling, custom 1902 model pipe organ by J.H. & C.S. Odell & Co. Number of pipes? 1,249. The organ reflected the Gilded Age’s ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- With every keystroke of the Barton pipe organ, David Hufford fills the Michigan Theater with the sound of musical history. It has been nearly 50 years that the theater’s pipe organ ...

University of Florida organists past and present and musical enthusiasts will gather later this month to celebrate 100 years of the Andrew Anderson Memorial Pipe Organ at the University Auditorium.