The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can be as big as a bus, a building, and produce a massive sound. (SOUNDBITE OF FRANK MARTIN'S "PRELUDE NO. 3") SIMON: Let us introduce Michael Barone, host ...

Vicksburg students toured three historic downtown churches for the city’s first “organ crawl,” learning about pipe organ history, mechanics, and music with live demonstrations by guest musicians.

Installed a few months before Our Lady of Victory Church opened in 1895, the church giant pipe organ and its 2,300 pipes are ...

CINCINNATI -- If this doesn’t sum up the current state of organ music in church worship services, nothing does: An established church in Anderson Township is having a replacement organ built, in part ...

She takes the 21 steps up the narrow staircase to the balcony of Canoga Park Lutheran Church to perform one final song on the pipe organ she’s played almost every Sunday since the church opened in ...

SOUTHERN PINES — Come Sunday, Michael Howe will call on his chancel choir members to bow heir heads before heading into the sanctuary. The moment will be bittersweet. They'll have heavy hearts. “He is ...

BYU's Stunning New Pipe Organ Behind the Scenes Tour. Produced by BYU Video. If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the BYU Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ...

The organ has chipped ivory keys, a few dead notes and a wiring system that isn’t up to code. The leather diaphragms that let air into the pipes are cracking, and sometimes parts are out of tune with ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the air. The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can ...