KEYS WEEK 2023: The organ might well be the most underrated of keyboards, at least in terms of the recognition it deserves for its impact in the music world. The sound of the organ has been ...

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 ...

MACUNGIE, Pa. - Allen Organ in Macungie is celebrating 85 years in business in the Lehigh Valley. It was founded in 1937 by Jerome Markowitz, who created the first electronic analogue organ. "Analogue ...

The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ at the Castro Theatre is not actually a Wurlitzer organ. It hasn’t been one since 2015, when the theater’s genuine Rudolph Wurlitzer Company organ was deemed too ...

It’s often hard to know what to do with a classic bit of electronics that’s taking up far too much of the living room for its own good. But when the thing in question is an electronic organ from the ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

BRATTLEBORO — In the 1930s Burton Minshall was a radio repairman in Ontario, Canada. His wife, Maddie, was a pianist and she asked her husband to modify an old reed organ so it would produce sounds ...

That was a common refrain in the early 1920s when the grand movie palaces across the country began to introduce audiences to a new musical invention: the theater pipe organ. A century later, the same ...

New York • When long-awaited drawings of the plan to rebuild David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s home at Lincoln Center, were released this month, James Kennerley’s eyes were immediately ...

Younger readers may not recall the days when every mall had a music store — not the kind where tapes and LPs were sold, but the kind where you could buy instruments. These places inevitably had an ...