Restoring antique pump organs is a fitting hobby for retired pastor Norm Porath. Retired minister Norm Porath has a weakness for old pump organs. He began restoring them a few years ago and it seems ...

POTTSTOWN — A historic church deserves a historic organ, and thanks to some foundation funding and uncounted volunteer hours, that’s what Christ Episcopal Church is going to get. To be clear, since ...

BELLOWS FALLS — The old pump house and gatehouse at Minard’s Pond is about to get some restoration attention. The pump house, which was moved off its original foundation in the pond about nine years ...

A restored early-1800s Tannenberg organ has returned to the York County History Center after undergoing extensive restoration. The restoration, costing over $300,000, includes a new bellows system ...

LOWELL— After nearly 20 years of being largely “unplayable,” the 117-year-old Jesse Woodberry pipe organ in the St. Patrick Church is ready to be played in a weekend concert and during church services ...

While both pump organs and Tin Pan Alley music may be out of fashion on their own, combined they’re quite a show. It sounds like a church organ, but it’s actually a pump organ, once common in churches ...

Washington Township’s Olde Stone House Village recently welcomed back its newly restored Mason & Hamlin “Sankey” model pump organ to the Olde Bunker Hill Church. The organ, made in the late 1890s, had ...

The ceiling of the St. Malachy Church in Philadelphia collapsed 12 years ago, damaging the 140-year-old organ. Now, a fundraiser for the organ's repair will have a baseball theme because the original ...