It’s 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning when Kim Martin flips the switch on an old friend. Two large air-blowers hum to life in the basement of the Polk Theatre. The Robert Morton Pipe Organ begins to breathe.
BRATTLEBORO — Allen Myers wants to teach people to not just love the historic Estey reed organs but to repair them. Myers, 80, of Brooklin, Maine, is on the board of the Estey Museum and one of the co ...
A fundraiser to support the care and restoration of the 1932 Kilgen will run 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at 3619 Avon St. The Cromaine District Library, which serves as the music hall’s ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands ...
Pipe organs are sometimes thought of as relics from bygone ages of church life. But in Deep East Texas, as in other parts of the nation and world, they are still alive, being constantly repaired, ...
When Max Jackson first placed his hands and feet on the pipe organ, he was enthralled. Before leaving Ashland for college in ...
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 ...