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So Long, Wanamaker Organ... 😥
🕑 Added 2025-01-09 22:59:57 +0000 UTCLast Call for the Wanamaker Organ - Macy's will close its doors and shutter the historic John Wanamaker Building's open retail space in March 2025, and the Wanamaker Organ will go silent. If you've never heard the organ play, go and hear it now!
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Bungeeskunk
Ohh, I just watched "The Wanamaker Organ Movie!" Wow... Amazing insides..
Bungeeskunk
Wow... Check out the organist Anna Lapwood @AnnaLapwoodOrgan on YT. Though Anna has not played on the Wanamaker, Anna was on the other world's largest pipe organ in Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City. •
Donald J Arndt
Wealthy in the wallet, but not in the heart.
Fred Patton
Very sad. I grew up listening to records of this organ.
Dr Andy Hill
Sadly, humankind has really lost its way and I fear we've left it too late to save ourselves from extinction.
adrian
Well, that's how they got to be wealthy in the first place :(
Paul Schaefer
I've never gotten there to hear it in person, but I've got audio CDs of the organ and watched their few-and-far-between live streams. Plus, there's the series of videos you did documenting the nuts-and-bolts of the instrument; I've also got the 2013 "Curator's Tour" DVD done by then-curator Curt Mangel with Michael Barone along for the ride. Your videos, Fran, document that instrument much more clearly than the DVD, particularly the part where the bottom is removed from one of the wind chests to show the inner-workings. Hopefully someone will come along and purchase the building.
Dr Andy Hill
Why don't wealthy people spend a small portion of their wealth on preserving such treasures? Oh, silly me. They care about nothing but swelling their wealth.
