Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.

The students also played the five-manual, 137-rank Austin Pipe Organ with more than 8,000 pipes, the fourth largest pipe ...

If you are a musician and you are also a Hackaday reader, there’s a good chance you’ll own at least one MIDI instrument. A synthesizer of some description, maybe a keyboard, or perhaps a drum machine.

Vicksburg students toured three historic downtown churches for the city’s first “organ crawl,” learning about pipe organ history, mechanics, and music with live demonstrations by guest musicians.

The pipe organ is the only instrument that you can climb into and walk around in. You can put your head in a tuba, of course, but it ends there. You may lie down in a grand piano, but not comfortably.

You might think you're fancy if you have a grand piano parked in your parlor. But if you really want the ultimate musical status symbol, you can't beat a pipe organ. At least that was the case 100 ...