NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the air. The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can ...

12,641 pipes, 142 stops, 30,000 pneumatic valves — one incredible sound. Perhaps there is no one better suited to demonstrate the power and versatility of Yale’s historic Newberry Memorial Organ than ...

A decommissioned pipe organ has been given a second life at Mount Auburn Cemetery by artist-in-residence Eden Rayz. It all started back in 2022, when a friend told her the cemetery's massive, ...

Olivier Latry compares listening to a large gallery pipe organ to visiting the Grand Canyon. “You can enjoy a movie of the Grand Canyon, just as you can enjoy a recording of a pipe organ,” says the ...

Pity the poor pipe organ. The behemoth instruments are often thought of as fusty relics of classical music — heard only in churches, vintage horror movies and increasingly fewer baseball stadiums. But ...

An electric organ takes samples of different pipe sounds, so what you’re playing is a recording.” Everything, from the keys, to the “wind box,” to the pipes, has to be in top-notch condition to create ...

If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the Brigham Young University Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ranks (sets of pipes), it’s the third-largest organ in Utah ...

The pipe organ. No harmonica, now is it? It can be as big as a bus, a building, and produce a massive sound. (SOUNDBITE OF FRANK MARTIN'S "PRELUDE NO. 3") SIMON: Let us introduce Michael Barone, host ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Barone, host of Pipedreams, a public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ and celebrating 40 years on the... A public radio program dedicated to the pipe organ ...