First Presbyterian Church bought the last pipe organ made by the legendary Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Inc. in Boston before it went out of business nearly 40 years ago. The pipes of the organ fill a ...
JOHNSTOWN -- The bellowing sound of a pipe organ hasn't been heard at St. Mark's Episcopal Church for 80 years. "We've had electronic organs since 1936, but even the electronic organ that we had in ...
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 ...
The one thing you might be surprised not to find in [Laurent]’s beautiful tonewheel organ build is any tonewheels at all. Tonewheels were an early way to produce electronic organ sounds: by spinning a ...