Organ experts get the music going again.

David Hufford stands with parts of a pipe organ. They were damaged by a flood. (AP/Ed White)
Eric Miller shows the organ at a church. (AP/Carlos Osorio)
James Lauck tunes pipes. He is squeezed inside a pipe organ. This organ has about 1,800 pipes. (AP)
The pipes of this huge pipe organ are behind walls. The giant organ has more than 33,000 pipes. (AP/Mel Evans)
A man plays the organ at Notre Dame Cathedral. The cathedral is in Paris, France. (AP/Christophe Ena)

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A pipe organ can rumble. You feel it in your tummy. It can sigh too. But a flooded organ makes no sound at all.

Floods soaked church organ parts in Michigan [MIH-shuh-gn]. Skilled people will fix them.

Read More: The organ in a church might be upstairs in the choir loft. You might see small to large pipes at the front of the church. But the parts that push the air through those pipes to make sound are usually in the church basement. That is where floods damaged the organs. People like David Hufford and Stephen Warner in Detroit will work on them. They hope the organs will make music again by Thanksgiving. Organs can help people to praise God. Psalm 150 mentions using trumpet, harp, and clashing cymbals. Pipe organs can make those sounds.