DETROIT — A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit’s ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and stashed away. It was a big production.” The Barton Opus enjoyed good acoustics at the Hollywood Theatre, according to the Detroit Theatre Organ Society. “There were …
HYDERABAD: Pipe organs rank amongst the rarest and toughest of musical instruments. There are only three pipe organs in Telangana-CSI Cathedral Medak, St. George’s Church Abids and Church of St John The Baptist. One such functional pipe organ is at St John's the Baptist church in Marredpally. St. Johns Church, Pipe Organ was built by Mohamed Habibullah of M/s Misquith …
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — There are few pipe organs in the world that have a nickname, a feminine pronoun and a Facebook fan page. The Hazel Wright organ — just “Hazel,” to her admirers — was removed piece by piece in 2013 from Christ Cathedral’s shimmering sanctuary in Southern California’s Orange County, and shipped to Italy for repair. “It’s been …
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