June 1st wanamaker organ unveiled

The pipe organ from world's fair living in philly now finally restored. Stunning sounding.

[@user-qt5cm1qf3m]

BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICENT, SUPERB AND WONDERFUL!!!!

[@MrKmoconne]

For such a large organ, I'm surprised they never gave it the 32 foot façade it deserved.

[@Engineer9736]

That indeed.. Many organs have a more impressive fascade like the Sydney Townhall or Budapest Palace of Arts ones. When you show someone a picture of the Wanamaker organ it does not give a good impression at all about what it actually is. Coming June I may visit the Wanamaker organ, and the boardwalk hall one too. I'm looking forward to it.

[@JanPBtest]

Yes, the facade has always looked awful to me, like some sort of infantile Disney parody. Why can't they make look like a real organ with all the power and beauty it deserves?

[@danielmkubacki]

I was at Organ Day with my mom. Man, this was great!

[@califdad4]

Macy's has done a very good job with this organ May Company who owned the store previously, was notoriously cheap and likely did little to no upkeep to the largest working pipe organ in the world

[@micahh9351]

the new paint job is so vibrant

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

Is that what all that was about ! A lick of paint 🙈😣

[@micahh9351]

@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 theres definitely more to it than that. most likely a tuning, solid cleaning, and overall maintenance that the organ probably hadnt seen for years.

[@tubbers20]

[@chadbeverly4926]

What did they do to it ?

[@SR009s]

Massive restoration

[@chadbeverly4926]

@@SR009s oh nice !

[@KingdaToro]

Facade restoration. Lots of gilding, in particular.

[@wizardofodds8239]

Commercial before this video on UTub was longer then this snippet!! Anticlimactic. Doubt the decoration paint didn't improve the sound of the organ's pipes.

[@sharpe15_2]

The facade pipes do not speak, idiot.

[@mumfordthepitbull4581]

That is not paint on the pipes - it is Gold leaf, which is the standard treatment for display pipes. See this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXazq2xmmtSlipo

[@micahh9351]

The thing we actually see is a facade, it isn't real pipes. The pipes are behind it in the white checkerboard panels

[@mumfordthepitbull4581]

@@micahh9351 They are real pipes in the facade, but they are not speaking. All of the area visible has pipes behind it, including behind the facade. You can see swell shades opening and closing in the dark squares at the top. The organ occupies 7 floors.

[@praestant8]

@@mumfordthepitbull4581 Those visible swell shades happen to be the string division.

[@TheJakeman789]

That was really stupid. Looks the same.

[@maddermax3775]

I'm glad you understand the concept of restoration.

[@yeety1208]

​@@maddermax3775exactly, what did they expect🤣

[@TheJakeman789]

@@maddermax3775this type of garbage is for revealing a major change or something brand new.

[@TheJakeman789]

@@yeety1208a major change or something brand new.

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

The point is, the bullshit unveiling and fanfare was totally unnecessary. It's the same old box of tin whistles !