The Senator's Masterpiece (Excerpt) - Atlantic City Convention Hall

[@topper2142]

Awesome!I sure hope one day this instrument will be heard in all its wonder!!

[@WakemanFan90]

I wonder, if this is fully restored isnt it something that should have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List? I am very glad that there is people here in this world that care for it, and i hope to see and of course hear it someday!! Cheers from Norway!

[@manga12]

You guys out there should know that its big things that captivate young boys, sometimes size and power matter, it would be a start to get the younger kids started in facination with such a large grand insterment. there is such a shortage of trained organists as it is, even with the recession it is all the more reason to go into overdrive and fight to keep the funding to keep this project alive if you belive in it. signed Jeremy manga12

[@OrganMusicYT]

@Thedoctorsbiggestfan the hall left it unplayable. Thankfully, within the past 12 years, after ALOT of hard work, things are making progress, slowly, but steadily, the organ is being restored. The ACCHOS and the team are acheiving something VERY special here.

[@kinura26]

This is a very neat video and I would love to help with the restoration some day it gives me goos bumps :)

[@Larsky1010]

The 1889 3/26 tracker on which I began my career at age 11 was ripped out in the late '50s with some of the large pipes turned into hog feeding troughs! I weep at the thought even now. Three cheers for the OHS!

[@OrganMusicYT]

@andyt1424 Chicago stadium was heavily unified. You could have an organ with 10 ranks, and get 60 stops from it, The 5 manual console on the midmer losh controls all the ranks on the midmer losh too, but it has half the stops, because not all ranks are available at the pitches they are available on the 7 manual console.

[@advisorC101]

Listen carefully at 3:06, listen to the way he says it. And even if repairs are underway with the changing economical condition of our world they are going to need all the help they can get. Truth be told despite what some say, no one except those who already have heard it knows what the organ really sounds like when its fully functional.

[@advisorC101]

That's where your mistaken friend, there are plenty of people who have heard it at full power and I happen to know one of those fortunate individuals. But soon the day will come where we too will hear it.

[@advisorC101]

EXACTLY MY POINT!!! But of course a certain someone can't help himself from being so apathetic towards something so worth saving.

[@andyt1424]

@3dwurli I don't understand why Chicago stadium had such a large console controlling only 51 ranks? When this 7 manual console controls 400+ ranks.

[@edolch]

Anybody who doubts this instrument to be the king of ALL instruments....go take a look at it for yourself. It'll change your life.

[@advisorC101]

That it will be.

[@OrganMusicYT]

@WakemanFan90 It should be on UNESCO as it is at the moment. It needs one hell of alot of TLC.

[@OrganMusicYT]

@Thedoctorsbiggestfan Chicago stadium organ wasnt the largest, most powerful, most unique and versitile instrument ever built. BUT, thats not to say it wasnt worth saving! It just hit an unfortunate series of circumstances, in that the organist didnt want it moved to the new building, or the management, then most of it being burned in the warehouse fire. Luckily the console survives! The midmer losh was left for years without a proper budget, and the damage done to it in recent restorations of

[@JonasClark]

Let us take for a moment as truth the idea that this organ is a "curiosity" because it has never been used to its full potential - does this not allow for the notion that, were it restored and played as such, it could be considered more than that? And if we also take as truth that, with the poor economy, restoring it now may not be a wise choice, should its status as a "curiosity" mean that we should be free to either let it fall into disrepair for good or, further, destroy it?

[@advisorC101]

So how do we defeat the apathy?

[@atallguynh]

Not so... I remember hearing the Wanamaker as a child in the 1980s at Christmas time and it was quite grand and captivating, even during business hours.

[@JonasClark]

This may not be as old as, say, the Acropolis, but look at historical buildings such as the Colisseum in Rome, which serve no modern purpose save as a piece of history to be preserved. If we preserve this grand instrument for another, one, two, three hundred years, however long, it will eventually become a great old wonder. And restoring an organ of this scale today will cost far, far less than building a new organ of this scale.

[@nexgenhippy]

@AllenJBlodgettJrmota Its more like a sports arena inside an organ concert hall.

[@advisorC101]

He is indeed nothing more than a cretin. I also spoke to a member of the ACCHOS and he said they would like to keep the instrument available for everyone so we can do more than just go and listen to it.

[@advisorC101]

It matters not, in any case none this changes the simple fact that I know people who have had that privilege and YES in that age group. Just so that you know some of the people in this video have heard its true power. I'm not going to argue with you over this, all I'm concerned with is seeing this Emperor being restored.

[@dieselheart001]

The AC organ is of exceptional utility and great historical value. As far as hearing it, I WILL HAPPILY PAY FOR THE RARE PRIVELEGE TO HEAR IT, RECESSION OR NOT. All other minor, inconsequential issues remain just that- MINOR AND INCONSEQUENTIAL. The Wanamaker organ is a great instrument as well, but it can NEVER be compared to this particular instrument. You-19lfm12- are a MOOT CURIOSITY OF NO TANGIBLE VALUE TO GOD OR MAN WHATSOEVER. Die at my feet and I will forgive you.

[@dieselheart001]

Sadly, you are blind to the munificence of God toward those loyal to Him. To Him "all souls, indeed! everything, belongs". There is a Purpose being worked out in each day, a seperating of the sheep and the goats . Which are you? You sound like a goat. No more can you see the future than could the soothsayers of old or present. Instead of gratitude there is bitterness and misery you set your table with, and so shall you eat thereof, until you die. Reality is God. Nations stand and fall by Him.