Hidden in an old converted warehouse in the West Seventh neighborhood of St. Paul is a pipe organ looking for a good home. It has about 900 pipes, a case made of American walnut, an African zebrawood ...

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The 75-year-old Liang Bingguang is a Miao ethnic group member from Wuji village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county, Liuzhou, Guangxi. He started to learn the skills of making reed-pipe wind instrument ...

Many of us have seen an organ and heard its sounds but not many of us really understand how it functions. What if a concert featured an organ performance with narration as well as a live streamed ...

A two-year uilleann pipe-making class in Dublin is helping to preserve one of Ireland's oldest traditional instruments. The uilleann pipe-making class is part of Ballyfermot College of Further ...

Pipe organs are sometimes thought of as relics from bygone ages of church life. But in Deep East Texas, as in other parts of the nation and world, they are still alive, being constantly repaired, ...

O rganbuilder Curtis Bobsin is a busy fellow this time of year, with many San Antonio churches relying on him to assure that their beloved pipe organs sound majestic at Christmas services. Each ...

Unlike most musical instruments, the pipe organ is commonly defined by the place where it's often played: church. And people seem to think of organists as reclusive creatures in the lofts of basilicas ...