WALNUT CREEK–Susan Hammond had one unforgettable day at Massey Hall in Toronto, where she was sitting a mere few feet away from the piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz. Hammond was a young pianist in ...

To the casual observer, the piano and organ are pretty similar. The keys are laid out the same, so the skills required to play each instrument are transferable, right? Not so, and if you don’t believe ...

The concert hall in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts has been designed as an acoustically superior space, but—as might be expected—the attention to detail doesn’t end with the building. One ...

I'm pretty sure this is the coolest thing we've ever done behind the Tiny Desk. There was a bit of furniture-moving and finagling, but when all the heavy lifting was done, there it was: A Hammond B3 ...

For most people, it's just another musical instrument, but for some, the Hammond organ can be a way of life, a passion that will lead to entirely new ways of making music. This is no ordinary organ, ...

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 ...

Considering that the Hammond Organ Company built the last B-3 organ some four decades ago, the unwieldy-but-sweet-sounding instrument is enjoying something of a moment in the Bay Area’s jazz scene.

becoming an all-Steinway school realized Wednesday. "It is an amazing thing to see," Flintom, the music department's facilities manager, said as Steinway pianos were delivered into the college's ...