This style of military band organ or “carouselle” organ features 97 wooden pipes and weighs about 500 pounds. It was popular with showmen who needed a small, easy-to-transport organ. The organ plays ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Organist Avery Tunningley calls it "a band in a box." On Sunday, Tunningley played jaunty tunes on Syracuse's Mighty Wurlitzer organ, to accompany the silent films "The Nut" (1921) ...

This article, which first ran in Oct. 25, 2023, has been updated. After waiting five years, Milwaukee filmgoers finally got a chance in November to hear the restored 1925 Wurlitzer three-manual ...

North Tonawanda is known to many as the home of the carousel. But a lesser known legacy of the Lumber City involves musical organs. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, North Tonawanda was a ...

After a painstaking restoration that required more than two years and a half-million dollars, the Orpheum’s historic Wurlitzer organ returns to action Thursday night in a concert that is part ...

Grammy-winning Memphis music producer and engineer Matt Ross-Spang has worked with such artists as John Prine, Al Green and the Drive-By Truckers. But capturing the building-sized sound of the almost ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA Music coming from the Wurlitzer-style 153 band organ on the Tuscora Park carousel has been one of the familiar sounds of summer in New Philadelphia for the past 77 years, but that ...

MESA, AZ — Get ready for a dinner and a show! Organ Stop Pizza has been serving up pizza and pipes for more than 50 years in Mesa. And it’s become quite the staple in the Valley. "We're actually one ...

On a recent Sunday night in West Seattle, people gathered to hear the sound of an era long gone. Accompanying a screening of the 1924 silent movie “Peter Pan” at Kenyon Hall, musician Dennis James ...

Jul. 20—A Band Organ Rally is coming back to Olcott this weekend after a year of silence for "The Happiest Music On Earth." The Carousel Organ Association of America (COAA) plans to once again ignite ...

Lance Johnson's performance skills on the organ are on display every week at the Fargo Theatre. What's not seen, at least by most of the public, is his technical knowledge of the instrument. Lance ...