Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul In 1916, the renowned pipe organ builders Casavant Freres of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada, installed a three-manual (three keyboard) organ, the Opus ...

It has only one "manual," or keyboard, and six stops, which limit a lot of the church music that can be played on it, said Judy Dehrer, church organist from 1980 to 1986.

This older design gave way in the 1850s to electro-pneumatic controls which allowed the organ’s keyboard to be situated further from the pipes. St. Paul’s Methodist Church, the First Church of ...

Bethards has been fascinated by pipe organs since the age of 9, when Schoenstein & Co. -- the same business he now owns -- restored the organ at his Santa Rosa parish, Church of the Incarnation.

Cinesamples O: Forbes Pipe Organ: Performance and verdict Most traditional pipe organs offer more than one keyboard, referred to as Manuals. With so many pipes in an organ, there’s an incredible ...

The organ, a two-keyboard setup with a large reed chorus and digital 32-foot pedal stops, was designed to pack as many sounds as possible into the chapel. The total cost, funded in part by a ...

There’s a manual keyboard which has 56 keys and a pedal board as well. The pedal board, which has about 30 keys, is connected to the manual keyboard.

I’m talking about a very weird pipe organ I had the opportunity to play while in school in Fresno, California, in the mid-60s. At the time, one of my many sidelines was as a piano tuner ...

Related to this story Salvaged pipe organ finds new home JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Today, the church building at Vine and Levergood streets in downtown Johnstown is little more than an empty shell.

The pipe organ at Claremont United Church of Christ has few peers in Southern California. With 4,041 pipes and 54 stops, it’s a little sister to the world-renowned 6,125-pipe, 72-stop organ at ...

The pipe organ at Philharmonic Hall, as David Geffen Hall was known when it opened in 1962. The organ was removed during a 1976 renovation. Above left, a rendering of Geffen Hall after its coming ...