The chapel pipe organ at Forest Sanctuary

The pipe organ

The chapel's pipe organ still plays after more than a century. It was the heart of the Presbyterian congregation's music — hymns and recitals filling the sanctuary Sunday after Sunday, the room built around it and the stained glass tuned to its voice.

Instruments like this are rare now. They ask for steady, patient care — tuning, regulation, leatherwork, and a dry, even-tempered room to live in. We're keeping up with that, season by season, so the organ can keep singing for everyone who comes through the doors.

If you play and would like to spend time with it, or you'd like to help support its care, we'd be glad to hear from you.

Book time with the organ

The organ and the chapel are open to musicians every day of the week, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Book practice, teaching, rehearsal, or performance time directly on the calendar — claim a slot that works for you.

Book a time on the calendar

Those who enjoy the space will be provided with details on how to care for and leave the sanctuary for others.

A note on how we share this room: vocational music teachers may be paid for their teaching, as that is their livelihood. But there are no fee-related performances, no ticketed entertainment, and no profiteering events here. We share music with each other freely as air.

Or send us a note

If you'd like to help support the organ's care, or you have a question before booking, send a note and Val will get back to you.

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211 E. Dixon Street, Forest, OH 45843 USA

In the village of Forest, Hardin County, Ohio.

Forest Sanctuary is a living lab of WholeFam, under True North Neuro, a registered Ohio nonprofit. There is nothing to buy and no membership — only an open door.

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