If you know organs, the sound of the Hammond is instantly recognizable. (SOUNDBITE OF ORGAN MUSIC) MARTIN: In the 80 years since the Hammond organ hit the assembly line, it has made its way into rock, ...

Elmer Elijah Mackall, a self-taught Southern Maryland piano player and gospel singer whose music drew on the days of slavery and hard times of the rural South, died of complications from emphysema ...

NEW HAVEN -- She's been called the "First Lady of the Organ," but Diane Bish is also somewhat of a missionary of the instrument, spreading the gospel of the pipe organ throughout the world both in her ...

Musicians who play the Hammond B-3 — the electric organ found most often in jazz, soul and gospel — can forget about traveling light. The instrument weighs in at around 425 pounds and moving it is a ...