When considering the sorry fate of so many pianos and pipe organs, a heartbreaking scene from Toy Story 3 comes to mind. A motley crew of abandoned toys, including a piggy bank, a Slinky dog ...

It's more pipe organ than house. The little kitchen and ... Still, to me there's something moving about giving new homes to all those abandoned pipes, about reclaiming all that glory lost to ...

Show more Documentary following a handful of eccentric devotees rescuing and restoring abandoned pipe organs from closing churches. As Martin Renshaw trawls churches for hidden gems in the form of ...

Yesterday, music from that instrument, a pipe organ built in 1929 ... Even during the years that the church was abandoned, its members still met in homes. When the church reopened in the 1980s ...

“You can’t describe it.” While many American churches have abandoned their pipe organs in favor of rock bands, electronic organs or keyboards, this organ has been playing preludes, hymns and ...

"It was expensive to put pipe organs into homes," he said. "You either heard music live in the church or you didn't hear it at all." While many churches have abandoned pipe organs and the singing ...

The pipe organ at St. Cecilia Cathedral stands ... Still other churches have abandoned the organ altogether and use canned music. Some have praise bands, though that's not a trend Higdon favors.

French photographer Francis Meslet has spent almost a decade documenting abandoned churches, chapels and priories in varying states of disrepair. His stunning images show dilapidated pipe organs ...

That's the sound of Will Sherwood, dean of the Worcester Guild of Organists, playing on a rare, 7,500-pipe Kimball Organ, which has recently been refurbished for performances later this year.