When people see the new four-story organ at First Community Church’s North Campus, they often think that the pipes they see are solely responsible for making the instrument’s rich sound. But Dominik ...

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 ...

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS (AP) -- For Vern Krech, it's like saying goodbye to an old friend. A lifelong member of Old Emanuel Lutheran Church in Inver Grove Heights, Krech, 67, is preparing to bid farewell ...

A bird’s-eye view of the organ removal project at University Place Christian Church. Crews from Buzard Pipe Organ Builders disassemble and pack up the organ at University Place Christian Church in ...

Bruce Stavem remembers how he felt when he become an organist for Wooddale Church and got a chance to play its Visser-Rowland pipe organ. This organ is a special instrument, Stavem said. According to ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Revving motorcycles, live bands and the calling of the Hogs are routinely heard in downtown Fayetteville, depending on the time of year. Now, the sound of 3,500 wind-blown pipes is ...

County officials have been fighting for years over what to do with a historic instrument. "It's a piece of history, but ...

FITCHBURG — Marcia Sharkey, the organist and choir director at Emanuel Lutheran Church, spent the better part of five decades playing on the church’s pipe organ before a fire seriously damaged its ...

Few instruments stick around for 100 years, and fewer still warrant a celebration, but that’s precisely what’s happening Saturday night at Rifle United Methodist Presbyterian Church for its historic ...

For nearly 80 years, the mighty organ at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan had faithfully served its congregants, belting out music for all occasions from weddings and funerals to daily services. The ...