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After years of work, the renovated and expanded organ at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church is ready for its first major public ...

Machines are whirring as hand tools chisel away and shape the finer details of woodworking projects. The natural sounds of RIT’s furniture design studios exist within an active environment filled with ...

For decades, American churches have been tailoring their styles of worship in response to changing communities. Sunday (and some Saturday) services are accented with the kinds of music, too, that fit ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) – 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 ...

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 ...

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – The largest of the new pipes added to the organ at St. John's Abbey stands 32 feet tall and weighs 850 pounds. Built in the Abbey's woodworking shop and hoisted into place using ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...