Hoisting a metal pipe the size of a small sapling trunk, Jack Bethards blew into one end like Gabriel sounding his trumpet, then frowned. "Hear that little scraping sound?" he said. "We need to do ...

WALLACE COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) – Preserving the past for future generations. That’s the goal of a special exhibit at the Fort Wallace Museum in Wallace, Kansas. The Rhea Antique Pump Organ Collection ...

Hector Berlioz once remarked that the orchestra may be the king of music, but that the organ is the pope. In the past 200 years, since the death of Bach (1685-1750), the king has reigned supreme.

Organs: the king of instruments, according to some. To be honest, the cult of the organ has never turned me on, with its cloistered virtuosos plying their trade in darkened cathedrals, reading their ...

The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...

A major gift to Hope College will add organ music to the variety of concerts audiences will be able to enjoy in the new Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. David P. Roossien of Holland has ...

In Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the first conversation between humans and aliens is a duet of music and visuals. The film’s narrative doesn’t offer even a tentative ...

Allen Organ Co. crossed space-age technology with the centuries-old ring of a pipe organ, and the results are still reverberating 36 years later. Allen’s Digital Computer Organ, released in 1971, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whitehall, the Palm Beach mansion built by Henry Flagler, circa 1901. Hiring a pop star to entertain at a private bash has long ...

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