pipe organ

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Once a music hall and auditorium, this towering edifice of brick and stained glass with a monstrous pipe organ and nearly 1,700 seats was red-tagged and razed after the 1971 San Fernando earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024

The 36,904-square foot, three-story theater, designed by Seattle architect B. Marcus Priteca, opened in 1916 as a state-of-the-art cinema, with a pipe organ and in-house orchestra that accompanied silent movies.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Six RAF pallbearers carried Brown’s flag-draped coffin on their shoulders as Edward Elgar’s “Nimrod” was played on the pipe organ during the procession.

From Washington Times • May 25, 2023

The Avalon opened as the Chevy Chase Theatre in 1923, with a 1,200-seat auditorium and a pipe organ to accompany silent films.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

Winchester’s Troper of two-voice organa manuscripts and its mighty four- hundred-voice pipe organ were the work of Anglo-Saxon Christians.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall