Explore the enduring craft of pipe organ building and the emotional power of sound through the work of a historic organ firm.

A rare pipe organ, manufactured in Mason City over 100 years ago, may soon have its “glorious sound” forever silenced. An effort conducted over the past two years to sell the instrument ...

Mark Steiner, of the Steiner-Murphy Pipe Organ Co., will handle the restoration of the organ's roughly 600 pipes and various parts and mechanisms at his shop in Cumberland.

The pipe organ should return with updated parts and, Smith said, a much better sound. "Rather than big blasts of sound that sort of surprise you, ...

The organ covers multiple stories across multiple parts of the church and every single pipe and part needs to be accessible for tuning and maintenance, which is almost a full time job.

HUDSON — The Trinity Community Church in Hudson was founded and built in 1914. Now, more than 100 years later, the congregation is still going strong with two services every Sunday, and a ...

HIGHLAND • Wicks Organ Co., which has built pipe organs in Highland for more than 100 years, will shut down its manufacturing operation over the next few months, its president, Mark Wick, said ...

The organ has chipped ivory keys, a few dead notes and a wiring system that isn’t up to code. The leather diaphragms that let air into the pipes are cracking, and sometimes parts are out of tune ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - A restoration that is breathing new life into a historic pipe organ at Coe College took a major step forward last week, when the “lungs” of the instrument were reinstalled after ...

Roy Redman and his Redman Pipe Organs crew meticulously craft an Opus 100 organ for Calvary Lutheran Church in Richland Hills. Then they will have to take it down, transport it and rebuild it.

Improvements to a cathedral's pipe organ ... to increase the organ's capacity to project sound further. The works would see new pipes added to a section of the instrument to increase its volume, which ...

The church decided to buy a new organ and put the old one up for sale. In fall 2008, Marshall-Ward and his associate music director, Wanda Griffiths, saw an ad for the Visser organ, knew ...