“When I was 12, my piano teacher found me jobs playing ... That little organ soon became a big pipe organ when the new church was built, and Christine soon was doubling as director of the ...

use the piano.” Mark Wright, music director at Christ Episcopal Church, works to repair a pipe organ on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The organ was damaged during a 1978 Christmas Eve arson and from ...

These days, even venerable church organs are begging for ... In 1923, the Kimball piano and organ company built a pipe organ for the Lake of the Isles mansion of Edward Backus, a lumber baron ...

With the absence of the organ, Hershey played the church’s grand piano for worship services ... from real wind supplied by the handmade pipes of the new organ. The analog organ produced a ...

People give hard-earned money to the church with trust, she said. The congregation since tried using electronic organs, and now sings to a grand piano, but they aren’t the same. Pipe organs have ...

The pipe organ stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries ... "What about the sympathy of a marimba, cymbal, or piano strings? Or the mode-locking of horns in a band?

"The piano is one-sound-fits-all basically ... to get onto a real pipe organ, you kind of have to have access to a large church." St. Dunstan's pipe organ comes from a decommissioned church ...

Praise Him with stringed instruments and the pipe.” It has long been a dream of singer Carole Hester to lead a worship ...

Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton will celebrate the 95-year history of its pipe organ on Saturday, May 31. All are welcome to hear a pre-concert talk at 2:15 p.m., followed by the organ ...

Mark Wright, the church’s music director ... “The organ here is hopeless, use the piano.” The organ was badly out of tune, hundreds of pipes didn’t work, and when some of its stops ...