THE natural order of harmonic progression in an open organ-pipe is well known. That there is from the same pipe an inverse order of harmonics equally natural is not equally well known. There is no ...

A newspaper ad from 1882 advertises “Beatty’s Parlor Organs for $50,” the equivalent of $1,583.57 today. Several prominent composers, Rossini, Maher, Dvorak, Strass and Liszt wrote for the harmonium ...

IN considering the nature of this pipe, and in determining the relation of its air-reed and its air-column, one fact discovered in these investigations should always be borne in mind, that the pitch ...

After 800 years of silence, the oldest pipe organ plays in Jerusalem, marking a major milestone in music history and medieval ...

BRATTLEBORO — They came from Maine and Connecticut, experts in the specialized field of reed organs, to fine-tune the historic collection of Estey organs at the Estey Organ Museum, to get ready for ...

The pipe organ is the most humanlike of musical instruments. With a great whoosh of breath from the leathery lungs of its bellows (or, as technology has improved, from steam engines, and finally ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Touching the keys of Bethesda Episcopal Church's newly restored pipe organ Sunday flooded David Hyde Pierce with a lifetime of memories. He and his three siblings were baptized in ...

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Members of First Congregational Church in Ashfield are pumped because their 1903 George Reed tracker organ has been restored. The $244,000 project was completed in June, but the organ has yet to be ...

BRATTLEBORO — The festive gathering of the International Reed Organ Society ended this past week. The conference was hosted in Brattleboro and attracted 135 participants from the United States, the ...