Each note has a duration and a pitch. In the piano roll, the length of each note event in the display directly relates to its ...

But then, the tub-thumping final maestoso begins with a series of huge organ chords – Saint-Saëns piles in trumpets, horns, quadruple winds, cymbals and even a piano played four-hands.

It has taken months of painstaking cleaning and decontaminating of 8,000 pipes, 115 organ stops and numerous other musical components, but on Saturday the majestic tones of the Grand Organ of ...

The organ consists of a separate toothed wheel for each note, all turning on a common shaft. Each wheel is laser-cut from thin plywood, with a series of fine teeth on its outer circumference.

This year's Malta International Organ Festival has once again cemented its place as one of the most anticipated cultural events in the Maltese Islands. Combining extraordinary music with the splendor ...