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It took him two years, working in his living room, but he created a hand-crafted church organ that he plays every Sunday for a Catholic parish in Houston.<\/p>\n

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Ben Crandall gently lifted the hand-carved top off the cherry-wood organ and laid it to the side. He reached in and pulled two flutelike tubes from the 165 wood and metal pipes\u00a0inside.<\/p>\n

He took out another smaller pipe and used a knife to gently scrape antimonial lead off the bottom. He was tuning his creation. \u201cYou have to be gentle. Too much, and you change the sound,\u201d he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Crandall, 36, of Sugar Land, built the portable pipe organ from his mind\u2019s eye \u2013 converting his vision to reality for the St. Helen Catholic Church<\/a> in\u00a0Pearland.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the church\u2019s regular paid organist, playing the giant pipe organ in the main sanctuary. He\u2019s also Mormon, a member of the Church of Latter<\/a>-Day\u00a0Saints.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Jim Courville<\/a> of St. Helen\u2019s smiles when he talks about Crandall. \u201cI think he\u2019s a Catholic by nature now. He knows more liturgy than most\u00a0Catholics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crandall, who has a Ph.D. in organ performance from the University of Houston<\/a>, laughed as he listened to the priest talk about him. His experience in a Catholic church was limited to recitals as he grew up. \u201cI grew up pretty\u00a0sheltered.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he does spend a lot of time at the church. But he\u2019s a committed Mormon, attending his own faith\u2019s sacrament services at a meeting house on Sundays after playing for three Masses at St. Helen\u2019s. His family attends a different service on Sunday mornings without\u00a0him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth churches value music,\u201d he said, adding that many of the hymns are the same with different\u00a0words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more<\/a> <\/strong>and see a slide show of the organ.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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