(Soundbite of organ music) RATH: Another distinctive feature of this instrument is how the sound gets generated. It needs air, a lot of it. Two bellows the size of four sheets of plywood are ...

But when the bellows start blowing, the pipes start singing ... “There’s a shoe department downstairs and there’s this incredible cathedral pipe organ in the building. It’s a remarkable marriage that ...

“A pipe organ,” he said, “is nothing more than a series of whistles that go from the size of a pen to 18 feet high and 2 feet in diameter.” The sound begins in a bellows, powered by a 7.5 ...

(The) bellows regulate the air pressure. The first pipe organs had to have the air pumped by hand.” “Pipes – they’re very temperamental. Dust can get in them and get them out of tune.

The 1905 George Kilgan & Son pipe organ arrived in Nashville from St ... An electric blower was later added to power the bellows. In 1969, Milnar's, then a fledgling company, restored the organ ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A pipe organ capable of making music the way it was ... and wind cabinets instead of strong young studs pumping in air with bellows,” Goddard added. The organ will have its debut ...

Their metal pipes contain a lot of lead, and pipe organs now use an electric fan to blow air through the pipes. (If they still had bellows, pumped by sturdy young boys as before the advent of ...

“You might think that the pipe organ that sits high in the loft would ... which supplies air to the bellows, is located in the basement.” The system at St. Ambrose was “wiped out” by ...

About one year later, with refinished chestnut, freshly voiced pipes, a new blower (as well as a hand pump for the bellows), resurfaced keys and many other renovations, the 366-pipe organ came ...

The 300-pipe organ operates by tracker-action ... so that it can be played both electronically and by pumping the bellows by hand, “has a lot of honesty to it,” he said. The church invites ...