More than 400 church pipe organs are being junked or falling silent every year, a charity says.

When people see the new four-story organ at First Community Church’s North Campus, they often think that the pipes they see are solely responsible for making the instrument’s rich sound. But Dominik ...

The congregation at Faith Lutheran Church is launching a major effort to bring its historic M. P. Möller Pipe Organ back to full life.

John Nordlie's musical artistry is unique in this era of music streaming and digital downloads. Part craftsman, part engineer, part dreamer, Nordlie has meticulously produced more than 50 pipe organs, ...

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 ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Revving motorcycles, live bands and the calling of the Hogs are routinely heard in downtown Fayetteville, depending on the time of year. Now, the sound of 3,500 wind-blown pipes is ...

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 ...

LOWELL— After nearly 20 years of being largely “unplayable,” the 117-year-old Jesse Woodberry pipe organ in the St. Patrick Church is ready to be played in a weekend concert and during church services ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HACKENSACK — Nearly 45 years after a fire swept through the parish hall of Christ Episcopal Church and damaged its pipe organ, the ...

FITCHBURG — Marcia Sharkey, the organist and choir director at Emanuel Lutheran Church, spent the better part of five decades playing on the church’s pipe organ before a fire seriously damaged its ...

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 ...