NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the air. The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can ...
The world's largest theater pipe organ can be found in a Franklin warehouse. The massive instrument is the brainchild of Paul Woelbing. When Woelbing is asked why he put the theater organ together, he ...
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 ...
The pipe organ, with its strong timber base and towering metal pipes, stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries. Even when not in use, the pipe organ affects the acoustical ...
With the turn of the calendar comes new beginnings, and for one Lynchburg family, it was a very special one. Investigation underway after two hunting dogs found dead on property in Appomattox County ...
If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the Brigham Young University Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ranks (sets of pipes), it’s the third-largest organ in Utah ...
What do Carmex lip balm and the world's largest theater organ have in common? Both are stored inside a Franklin-based building. This is a "you gotta see it to believe" kind of story. Paul Woelbing, ...
LISBON (Reuters Life!) - All six historical pipe organs of the Mafra Palace Basilica resounded in public for the first time this month, reviving some of the former grandeur of Portugal's kings. The ...
First Presbyterian Church bought the last pipe organ made by the legendary Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Inc. in Boston before it went out of business nearly 40 years ago. The pipes of the organ fill a ...
Behind the sweeping walls of Union Terminal's rotunda, something beautiful has been holding its breath. Since the late 1980s, the train station housing the Cincinnati Museum Center has been home to an ...
The Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is at a good stopping point for pipe organs. Worcester is the “pipe organ capital of New England,” says Randy Steere, dean of the Worcester ...
The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can be as big as a bus, a building, and produce a massive sound. (SOUNDBITE OF FRANK MARTIN'S "PRELUDE NO. 3") SIMON: Let us introduce Michael Barone, host ...