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 ...

[Jon Ferwerda] managed to fry the analog electronics on an old electric organ while conducting some circuit bending experiments. It’s a loss, but he’s still left with some cool equipment to play with.

A woman who played the century-old wooden pipe organ for a half century at the 125-year-old Church of the Visitation in Westphalia, which was consumed by fire Monday, is mourning the loss of both the ...

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 ...

Listener John Marks of Wickford, R.I., presents the sound of a circa-1680 treadle-bellows organ as one of our prize-winning SoundClips segments. Our SoundClip series features sounds listeners collect ...

What do you do if you’re in a band and have an old, dead organ lying around? Build a MIDI foot controller, of course. After dispensing of the old organ guts, [Mark] mounted the pedals in a handsome ...

Picture a couple thrust upon a remote beach, the wreckage of their ship just offshore and a pedal organ among the treasured possessions around them. The heavily pregnant woman is in labour and gives ...