Churches have long been places where people gather to reflect, pray, and experience moments of peace. Music often plays a powerful role in shaping that atmosphere. Among the many instruments used in ...

Walking into Grace and Saint Peter's Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon, one is struck by its dark wood, high ceilings, and glittering stained glass windows. But almost immediately, the pipe organ ...

The pipe organ stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries, and even when not in use, it affects the acoustical environment around it. Researchers performed a sine-sweep through ...

The appeal of rattling church rafters turned John Ahern toward the pipe organ. Granted, Ahern, 17, doesn’t want church walls to collapse when he plays chords during a hymn, but he likes the power. “I ...

John Hollins was entranced by the pipe organ from a young age. He recalled trying to mimic the sounds, low or high, that he heard during Sunday church services in South Carolina. His childhood ...

For more than 60 years, an analog Allen organ provided music during services at First Reformed United Church of Christ of Lancaster. It also was central to the church’s popular — and free — First ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — The Church of the Epiphany’s new pipe organ was hand-built in Utah before being delivered by a semitrailer to the church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. NEW YORK (RNS) — The organ ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2024 – The pipe organ, with its strong timber base and towering metal pipes, stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries. Even when not in use, the pipe organ ...