St. John’s organ builder feels ‘enormous joy’ hearing the instrument played

Christian Metzler, a native of Austria, came to St. John’s campus in Collegeville, Minn., last year to carry on the tradition ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Student blends technology, art and design to build pipe organ

Machines are whirring as hand tools chisel away and shape the finer details of woodworking projects. The natural sounds of RIT’s furniture design studios exist within an active environment filled with ...
The Indianapolis Star

This business may be easy to miss, but not the custom pipe organs they've built since 1980

If you pass by too quickly, you might miss it. Tucked away in a small plaza on the northeast corner of East Saint Clair and Massachusetts Avenue, a sign reads "Goulding & Wood Pipe Organ Builders, ...
Daily Herald

BYU: World-class pipe organ is the ‘crown jewel’ of new music building

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 ...
KCCI Des Moines

Church cherishes their pipe organ after Dobson factory fire

RHEYA: GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS IS -- WAS IN LAKE CITY TODAY, WHEER A FIRE TUESDAY DESTROYED A COMPANY KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD FOR BUILDING PIPE ORGANS. THE BUILDING THAT HOUSED DOBSON PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS ...

A massive pipe organ is dividing a small California town. Can it be saved?

County officials have been fighting for years over what to do with a historic instrument. "It's a piece of history, but ...
KCCI Des Moines

Iowa company destroyed by fire in 2021 building pipe organ in Sydney, Australia

LETTER. NEW AT FIVE AN OREGON IN THE WORKS. WHEN THE DOBSON PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS FACILITY IN LAKE CITY CAUGHT FIRE IN 2021, DESTROYING ALL THE PROGRESS IS NOW BEING ASSEMBLED IN ITS NEW HOME IN ...
Woodworking Network

Woodworking monks and organ builder come together

"As there are craftsmen in the monastery, let them practice their crafts with all humility," which is the rule of Saint Benedict (chapter 57). Such is the case with Saint John’s Abbey Woodworking, a ...
Juneau Empire

Century-old theater organ in State Office Building at ‘tipping point’ for decision on long-term repairs

Christopher Nordwall and a co-worker gave a thorough tuneup to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ in the atrium of the State Office Building less than two years ago. But when he returned Thursday ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Pipe organ's rich complexity, relative obscurity make organists a rare breed

The appeal of rattling church rafters turned John Ahern toward the pipe organ. Granted, Ahern, 17, doesn’t want church walls to collapse when he plays chords during a hymn, but he likes the power. “I ...
Juneau Empire

Clearing the old pipes in the Kimball organ at the State Office Building

Going unplayed for more than three years in the atrium of the Alaska State Office Building isn’t the worst thing that could happen to the 1928 Kimball Theatre Pipe Organ that has been there since 1976 ...