As a common Lutheran joke goes, a Lutheran Church without a pipe organ is like a farm without a tractor. By that logic, the ...

Eliza Wiley IR photo editor - Jon Lester, a pipe organ specialist under contract with Wicks Pipe Organ Co., adjusts some of the 2800 pipes in the pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. Helena. Eliza Wiley ...

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the laying of its cornerstone Saturday with a recital featuring the church's recently restored Wicks pneumatic pipe organ. The ...

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1450 30th Ave., East Moline, will celebrate the rededication of its pipe organ with a hymn festival at 3 p.m. Oct. 5. The festival will be led by Dr. Michael Burkhardt, a ...

DOYLESTOWN – From the balcony of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, a sacred melody emanated from the organ, in tones that were rich without being loud or dominant. Julie Zimmerman was practicing, for her ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) -- An organ at Trinity Lutheran Church installed in 1953 for $11,000 is now valued at $143,000. Congregation members unanimously voted last November to rebuild the 1953 Wicks pipe ...

Organ pulls date to 1957, when the Wicks Pipe Organ Co. built the organ for First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood. The organ is being donated to a Catholic church in Samoa. Photo by Robert Cohen, ...

First Presbyterian Church director of music Bill Stein looks over pipe chambers after wooden covers were removed by church members in preparation for pipe removal Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The church's ...