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 massive pipe organ occupies its fair share of the sanctuary wall at the forefront of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Brainerd. The large church acquired the organ in 1922. According ...

As electronics hobbyists we are grateful to our spouses and flatmates who gracefully tolerate all of our weird equipment and chaotic projects in their homes. But it takes a different level of ...

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 ...

Off-Ramp goes to El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall to talk with Bill Field. He bought a Wurlitzer in the 60s and has been playing it ever since. For more than forty years now, the Old Town Music Hall ...

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 ...

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 ...

HESSVILLE - While pipe organs are not particularly rare in Northwest Ohio, pipe organists most certainly are. Many pipe organs sit silent in local churches simply because there is no one to play them.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A glut of organs up for grabs is in part a consequence of declining church membership across denominations. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) A 112-year-old pipe organ in the sanctuary ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- With every keystroke of the Barton pipe organ, David Hufford fills the Michigan Theater with the sound of musical history. It has been nearly 50 years that the theater’s pipe organ ...

NASHVILLE — A 112-year-old pipe organ in the sanctuary of a now-closed church needs a new home. The $500,000 instrument is in good condition and free — if you can pay $10,000 to $30,000 to remove it ...