At Army Expo '25 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 13, 2025, a World War II chaplain veteran demonstrated a field organ. He explained how the instrument uses foot pedals to pump air through internal ...

ST. LOUIS • The old pump organ sat in an unused funeral chapel for six decades. Mice nibbled through the bellows. Valves, made of leather, rotted away. Workers at Bellefontaine Cemetery almost pitched ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...