On Sunday mornings I had the unpaid job of pumping the bellows for the Church Organ. I had to sit in a small room at the back of the Organ. Facing me was a wooden wall through which was a large wooden ...
In a sunlit loft on an East Baltimore street, a 150-year-old pipe organ destined for Odenton’s Epiphany Episcopal Church came back to life. Pomplitz-Rodewald, Baltimore organ-builders since pre-Civil ...
The Dunn County Historical Museum has recently acquired an ornately beautiful, turn-of-the-century pump organ. Believed to be manufactured by the Beatty Parlor Organ Company, the organ came to the ...
When 91-year-old Raymond Stover began pumping the pipe organ to his favorite song, “Amazing Grace,” during the antique instrument’s dedication on Sunday morning, a few notes wavered. “He didn’t pump ...
Listener John Marks of Wickford, R.I., presents the sound of a circa-1680 treadle-bellows organ as one of our prize-winning SoundClips segments. Our SoundClip series features sounds listeners collect ...