The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls and church music,

traditional works by baroque composers like Bach.

But one musician is broadening the instrument's reputation and has gotten over a million people to tune in.

Our senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown, with help from our friends at Maine Public,

went to experience this in Portland.

It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

A lone musician

at the console of an instrument capable of enormous and enormously varying sounds.

Hands and feet flying across the keyboards.

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for coming. I am so excited about this.

It's become a most unexpected phenomenon, playing out before packed audiences.

Hello, I'm here at the Sydney Opera House.

And gaining large followings on social media.

I will give in this baby Trader Joe's bag, and it's the perfect size for my organ shoes.

For the traditional pipe organ, something big is happening. perfect size for my organ shoes.

For the traditional pipe organ, something big is happening. And Anna Lapwood is helping lead the way.

It's a novelty that people haven't been given the opportunity to understand

because it's been impossible to get them close enough.

But now with social media, we can bring a million them close enough. But now with social media we can bring a million people

close enough just for a phone. They come to the concerts. They come and they want to hear

what you're talking about and they want to understand and they have questions and they want to feel it they want to feel the room shaking we got a glimpse of the

lapwood effect recently in Portland Maine as she prepared for the final performance of a

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