Listener John Marks of Wickford, R.I., presents the sound of a circa-1680 treadle-bellows organ as one of our prize-winning SoundClips segments. Our SoundClip series features sounds listeners collect ...

John Cage died in 1992 at the age of 79, but both fans and detractors have continued discussing and performing his work. After discovering the I Ching in 1951, Cage incorporated the Chinese divination ...

Installing a 15-ton pipe organ into a new space is like tailoring a suit, says organ builder Alex Ross. “We show up with a suit that has too much material and then we decide what to remove to get ...

Every time the 1787 Tannenberg organ is played at the Lititz Morvian Church, Rich Wagner performs a service not seen too often in the 21st Century; pumping the air that provides the sound for a piped ...

After six years of work and tens of thousands of dollars, the newly refurbished organ at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth will be dedicated Sunday, Sept. 14, with a performance by ...

If the organ is the King of Instruments, its monarchy is built on deception. The largest, most technologically complicated, most tonally diverse, and most visually stunning of musical objects, the ...

Edward C. Pickering recommended "An organ bellows capable of giving a perfectly constant current of air under various pressures” in his Elements of Physical Manipulation (New York, 1873), noting that ...