Only ardent music historians know the difference between a portative organ, a small medieval instrument on which only a single melodic line could be played, and a positive organ, a larger device from ...

Only ardent music historians know the difference between a portative organ, a small medieval instrument on which only a single melodic line could be played, and a positive organ, a larger device from ...

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Back in the day, when other kids wanted to play the electric guitar to emulate the Elvis Presley sound sweeping the country, 12-year-old Jonas Nordwall was drawn to the pipe organ, an old-fashioned ...

Walking upstairs to the balcony of Grace Lutheran Church on a given Sunday brings you to Chuck Hoogland, who finds himself in his 60th year playing the pipe organ. The Mankato resident figured he’d be ...

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS (AP) -- For Vern Krech, it's like saying goodbye to an old friend. A lifelong member of Old Emanuel Lutheran Church in Inver Grove Heights, Krech, 67, is preparing to bid farewell ...

FITCHBURG — Marcia Sharkey, the organist and choir director at Emanuel Lutheran Church, spent the better part of five decades playing on the church’s pipe organ before a fire seriously damaged its ...

Bruce Stavem remembers how he felt when he become an organist for Wooddale Church and got a chance to play its Visser-Rowland pipe organ. This organ is a special instrument, Stavem said. According to ...