Coordinates: 39.9515°N 75.

1622°W

Wanamaker Organ
The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, in Philadelphia, is the largest fully functioning pipe
organ in the world.[3] (The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ has more pipes but fewer ranks
and at least 80% of the pipes have been unplayable for most of its existence). The Wanamaker
Organ is located within a spacious 7-story court at Macy's Center City (formerly Wanamaker's
department store) and played at least twice a day Monday through Saturday, and more frequently
during the Christmas season. The organ is featured at several special concerts held throughout the
year, including events featuring the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ Festival Chorus and Brass
Ensemble.

Contents The display pipes of the Wanamaker

Organ. These pipes are silent. The
Notable characteristics pipes that sound are behind
History them.[1][2]
Organists
Some noteworthy assistant organists
Present curators
Music inspired by or written for the Wanamaker Organ
Original Compositions
Arrangements of existing music

Architectural layout
Stoplist
Main Organ
Ethereal Organ
Echo Organ
Orchestral Organ
String Organ
Stentor Division
Percussion Division
Recordings
See also
Notes and references
External links

Notable characteristics
In its present configuration, the Wanamaker Organ has 28,750 pipes in 464 ranks.[4] The organ console consists of six manuals with an array of
stops and controls that command the organ. The organ's String Division forms the largest single organ chamber in the world. The instrument
features eighty-eight ranks of string pipes built by the W. W. Kimball Company of Chicago.[4] The organ is famed for its orchestra-like sound,
coming from pipes that are voiced softer than usual, allowing an unusually rich build-up because of the massing of pipe-tone families. The artistic
obligation entailed by the creation of this instrument has always been honored, with two curators employed in its constant and scrupulous care
(what leads to the state of one of the best maintained organ in the world). The organ, with its regular program of concerts and recitals, was
maintained by Wanamaker's throughout the chain's history, even as the company's financial fortunes waned. This level of dedication was
maintained when corporate parentage shifted from the Wanamaker family to Carter Hawley Hale Stores followed by Woodward & Lothrop, Lord
& Taylor, and finally to Macy's.

History
The Wanamaker Organ was originally built by the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, successors
to the Murray M. Harris Organ Co., for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. It was designed to be the
largest organ in the world, an imitation of a full-size orchestra with particularly complete
resources of full organ tone including mixtures. In addition to its console, the organ was
originally equipped with an automatic player that used punched rolls of paper, according to the
Los Angeles Times of 1904.[5] It was designed by renowned organ theorist and architect George
Ashdown Audsley. Wild cost overruns plagued the project, with the result that Harris was ousted
from his own company. With capital from stockholder Eben Smith, it was reorganized as the Los
Angeles Art Organ Company, and finished at a cost of $105,000 (equal to $2,859,889 today),
$40,000 over budget, equal to $1,089,481 today. The Fair began (in late April 1904) before the
organ was fully installed in its temporary home, Festival Hall. It still was not entirely finished in
September of that year, when Alexandre Guilmant, one of the most famous organists of the day,
presented 40 very well-attended recitals on the or
gan.

Following the Fair, the organ was intended for permanent installation by the Kansas City
Convention Center. Indeed, the original console had a prominent "K C" on its music rack. This The Wanamaker Organ centennial
venture failed, bankrupting the L. A. Art Organ company after the Fair closed. There was a plan plaque
to exhibit the organ at Coney Island in New York City, but nothing came of this.

The organ languished in storage at the Handlan warehouse in St. Louis until 1909, when it was
bought by John Wanamaker for his new department store at 13th and Market Streets in Center
City, Philadelphia. It took thirteen freight cars to move it to its new home, and two years for
installation. It was first played on June 22, 1911, at the exact moment when British King George
V was crowned. It was also featured later that year when U.S. President William Howard Taft
dedicated the store.

Despite its then-unprecedented size (more than 10,000 pipes), it was judged inadequate to fill the
seven-story Grand Court in which it was located, so Wanamaker's opened a private organ factory
in the store attic, which was charged with enlarging the organ. The first project to enlarge the
The organ in its original home, the organ was the addition of 8,000 pipes between 1911 and 1917.
1904 World's Fair.
Wanamaker's sponsored many historic after-business-hours concerts on the Wanamaker Organ.
The first, in 1919, featured Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra with organist
Charles M. Courboin.[4] Every sales counter and fixture was removed for the free after-hours event, which attracted an audience of 15,000 from
across the United States. Subsequently more of these "Musicians' Assemblies" were held, as were private recitals. For these events Wanamaker's
opened a Concert Bureau under Alexander Russell and brought to America master organists Marcel Dupré and Louis Vierne, Nadia Boulanger,
Marco Enrico Bossi, Alfred Hollins, and several others. (This agency, which worked in partnership with Canadian Bernard R. LaBerge, evolved
into the Karen McFarlane Concert Agency of the present day.) During his first recital on the organ, Dupré was so impressed with the instrument
that he was inspired to improvise a musical depiction of the life of Jesus Christ. This was later published as his
Symphonie-Passion.

In 1924, a new project to enlarge the organ began. Marcel Dupré and Charles M. Courboin were among those asked by Rodman Wanamaker, John
Wanamaker's son, to "Work together to draw up a plan for the instrument. Use everything you have ever dreamed about." They were told there was
no limit to the budget. This project resulted in, among other things, the celebrated String Division, which occupies the largest organ chamber ever
constructed, 67 feet long, 26 feet deep, and 16 feet high (22 by 9 by 5 m). During this project, the organ's current console was constructed in
Wanamaker's private in-house pipe-organ factory, with six manuals and several hundred controls. By 1930, when work on expanding the organ
finally stopped, the organ had 28,482 pipes, and,if Rodman Wanamaker had not died in 1928, the organ would probably be even bigger.[6]

Plans were made for, among others, a Stentor division, a section of high-pressure diapasons and reeds. It was to be installed on the fifth floor,
above the String Division, and would be playable from the sixth manual. However, it was never funded, and the sixth manual is now used to
[7]
couple other divisions or play various solo voices from other divisions that are duplexed to this keyboard.

Rodman Wanamaker was not interested in mere size, however, but in artistic organ-building with finely crafted pipes and chests using the best
materials and careful artistic consideration. The Wanamaker Organ console, built in the store organ shop by William Boone Fleming, is a work of
art in its own right with heavy, durable construction, an ingenious layout of its pneumatic stop action and many unique features and conveniences.
Wanamaker also had a collection of 60 rare stringed instruments, the Wanamaker Cappella, that were used in conjunction with the store organs in
Philadelphia and New York, and went on tour. They were dispersed after hisdeath.
Following the sale of the store to The May Department Stores Company, in
1995, the Wanamaker's name was removed from the store (first as Wanamaker-
Hecht's) in favor of Hecht's, but the organ and its concerts were retained. During
the local renaming of the Hecht's stores to Strawbridge's, the historic
Wanamaker Store briefly took the name of its longtime rival Strawbridge's. The
May Company began a complete restoration of the organ in 1997, as part of the
store's final May Co. conversion into a Lord & Taylor. At that time the store
area was reduced to three floors and additional panes of glass were put around
the Grand Court on floors four and five, greatly enhancing the reverberation of
the room.

The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to the Grand Court on September 27, 2008 The organ's six-manual console
for the premiere performance of Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante (1926)
on the organ for which it was written. The ticketed event, featuring soloist Peter
Richard Conte, also includes the Bach/Stokowski arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D
minor, Marcel Dupré's Cortege and Litany for Organ and Orchestra, and the world premiere of a
Fanfare by Howard Shore, composer for The Lord of the Rings films. Shore visited the store in
May 2008 to meet with Peter Richard Conte and hear the Wanamaker Organ. The Philadelphia
Orchestra Concert was co-sponsored by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ and was a benefit
for that organization.[8]

Organists
Although numerous famous organists have played special concerts on the organ, it has had only
four chief organists in its history:

Dr. Irvin J. Morgan (1911–1917)

Mary E. Vogt (1917–1966)
Dr. Keith Chapman (1966–1989)
The Wanamaker Organ in the Grand
Peter Richard Conte (1989–present)
Court
For about a decade beginning in 1919, Dr. Charles M. Courboin was the organist for a series of
special evening concerts, including several collaborations with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Dr.
Courboin also headed the Wanamaker Organ Shop in the late 1920s.

Some noteworthy assistant organists

Alma Wilson Baecker (asst. to Mary E. V
ogt)
Harriet Ridley (Vogt)
Rollo Maitland (Vogt)
Nelson E. Buechner (Vogt and Keith Chapman)
Walter Baker (Vogt)
David Ulrich (Vogt)
Kenneth Goodman (Vogt)
Barron Smith (Vogt)
Dr. Richard L. Elliott (Chapman)
Robert Carwithen (Chapman)
Dennis Elwell (Chapman)
Bruce Shultz (Chapman)
Diane Meredith Belcher(Chapman)
Monte Maxwell (Chapman)
William S. Wrenn, Jr. (Chapman)
Rebecca Kleintop Owen (Peter Richard Conte)
Rudolph A. Lucente (Chapman and Conte)
Russell Patterson (Conte)
Michael Stairs (Chapman and Conte)
John Binsfeld (Chapman and Conte)
Ken Cowan (Conte)
 Dr. Harry Wilkinson (Conte)
Colin Howland (Chapman)
Fred Haas (Conte)
Nathan Laube (Conte)
Matt Glandorf (Conte)
Wesley Parrott (Conte)

Present curators
Curt Mangel
Matthew Taft

Music inspired by or written for the Wanamaker Organ

Original Compositions

"Symphonie-Passion" byMarcel Dupré

"Concerto Gregoriano" byPietro Yon
"Concerto Romano" byAlfredo Casella
"Dedicace" by Louis Vierne, dedicated to Rodman Wanamaker
"Symphonie Concertante" for organ and orchestra byJoseph Jongen
"Fanfare and Procession" by Keith Chapman
"A Highland Ayre" from "Scottish Folk Tone Poems" by Richard Purvis (written for the Wanamaker Organ at the request of Keith
Chapman)
"Cathedral of Commerce" byRobert Hebble

Arrangements of existing music

"Come Sweet Death" by J.S. Bach, arranged after Stokowski byVirgil Fox.[9]
Leopold Stokowski's organ-orchestra transcription ofBach's Passacaglia in C Minor
Transcription of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Keith Chapman
Transcription of Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of Nicolai's "Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of Elgar's "Cockaigne Overture" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of Bernstein's "Overture to Candide" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of the Elgar "Enigma Variations" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of "Der Rosenkavalier Suite" by Peter Richard Conte
Transcription of Arthur Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard" Overture by Peter Richard Conte
Improvisation on a Stokowski-theme byXaver Varnus[10]

Architectural layout
The pipes are laid out across five floors, with the sections situated as follows:

2nd floor south – Main Pedal 32′, Lower Swell, Great, Percussions
3rd floor south – Main Pedal, Chorus, Upper Swell, Choir/Enclosed
Great, Solo, Vox Humana Chorus
4th floor south – String
4th floor west – Orchestral (adjacent to String)
7th floor south – Major Chimes, Ethereal, Chinese Gong
7th floor north – Echo
The 32′ Wood Open, 32′ Diaphone, and 32′ Metal Diapason pipes run the length
.[4]
of a little more than 2 stories, beginning on the second floor

A view of the string division.

Stoplist
Main Organ
I Choir II Great III Swell IV Solo Pedal

Double Unenclosed Double Double Gravissima 64′

16′ 16′
Dulciana Great Diapason Open 16′ Contra
Diapason 32′
Dulciana 8′ Sub Principal 32′ Soft Bourdon 16′ Diaphone
Open Contra Stentorphone 8′ Grand Viol 16′ Diaphone 16′
8′ 16′
Diapason Gamba Horn First First
8′ 8′
Violin Double Diapason Diapason Contra
8′ 16′ 32′
Diapason Diapason Violin Second Open
8′ 8′
Stopped Sub Quint 102⁄3′ Diapason Diapason Diapason
8′
Diapason Diapason Bell Flute 8′ Third Second
8′ 8′
Concert Flute 8′ Phonon Orchestral Diapason Contra
8′ 32′
Violin Open
Salicional 8′ Diapason Flute 8′
8′ Diapason Diapason
Quintadena 8′ Major Harmonic
8′ Viol 8′ First Open
Vox Angelica 8′ First Flute 16′
8′ Viol 8′ Diapason
Vox Celeste 8′ Diapason Grand Flute
8′ Second
Keraulophone 8′ Second (2 ranks) Harmonic
8′ 8′ Open 16′
Diapason Double Flute 8′ Flute
Forest Flute 4′ Diapason
Third Tibia Dura 8′ Tierce Flute
Salicet 4′ 8′ 8′ Third Open
Diapason (2 ranks) 16′
Piccolo 2′ Clarabella 8′ Diapason
Fourth Melodia 8′ Chimney
Soft Cornet 8′ 8′ Open
Diapason Flute 8′
VI Soft Dulciana 8′ Diapason
Gamba (2 Clarabella 8′
Saxophone 16′ 8′ Gamba Contra
ranks) Gemshorn 8′ 32′
Celeste (2 8′ Bourdon
Saxophone 8′ Major Tibia 8′ Nasard
ranks) Bourdon 16′
English Horn 8′ Mezzo Tibia 8′ Gamba (2 8′
Gamba 8′ Soft
Clarinet 8′ Minor Tibia 8′ ranks) 16′
Quint Bourdon
51⁄3′ Grand
Double Flute 8′ Bourdon 8′ Octave
Gamba
Nazard Flute Harmonic Soft 8′
8′ Grand Bourdon
(2 ranks) Flute (2 4′ 8′
Gamba
Octave 4′ ranks) Open Flute 16′
First Octave 4′ Quintaphone 8′
Mixture VIII Soft Flute 8′
Quint
Harmonic Second
4′ 51⁄3′ Flute 4′
8′ Octave Diapason
Trumpet Violone 16′
Nazard (from 2 Octave 4′
Enclosed 2 ⁄3′ Harmonic Gamba 16′
Great Mixture V) 4′
Flute Dulciana 16′
Harmonic
Covered 2′ Harmonic Soft
8′ Piccolo 31⁄5′ 8′
Tibia Tierce Dulciana
Harmonic Corroborating
Twelfth Open
Flute
8′ Mixture V 22⁄3′ 102⁄3′
Harmonic Quint
Mixture VI
Quint 51⁄3′ Piccolo Stopped
Bass Tuba 16′ 2′ 102⁄3′
Harmonic Harmonic Quint
4′ Bass Stentor 8′
Flute 16′ Double
Trombone 16′
Principal 4′ Trumpet Octave 8′
Contra
Tierce 31⁄5′ 16′ Tuba 16′ First Tibia 8′
Fagotto
Octave Quint 2′ Trumpet 8′ Second
Double Oboe 8′
16′ Soft Tuba 8′ Tibia
Super Horn
2′ Cornopean 8′ First Tibia 4′
Octave Trombone 8′
Mixture VII Tuba 8′ Ophicleide 8′ Second
4′
Musette 8′ Tibia
Double Fagotto 8′
16′ First Cello 8′
Trumpet Oboe 8′ Ophicleide 4′
Tuba 8′ Second
Trumpet 8′ Soft Tuba 4′ 8′
Cello
Trumpet 8′ Horn 8′ Grand
 Horn 8′
Harmonic 4′ Bassett Horn 8′ Mixture VI Principal 4′
Clarion Clarinet 8′ Mixture V Octave 4′
Great Clarinet (2 Mixture VI Mixture VII
Chorus 8′
ranks) Mixture VIII
Diapason Vox Humana Mixture VIII
8′ 8′
Magna (2 ranks) Grand
Stentorphone 8′ Harmonic Mutation ×
4′
First Clarion Contra
8′ 32′
Diapason Musette 4′ Bombarde
Second Original Bombarde 16′
8′
Diapason String Bombarde 8′
Third Division
8′ Trombone 16′
Diapason Contra Bass 16′ Tuba 16′
Major Flute 8′ Violoncello 8′ Euphonium 16′
Double Flute 8′
Viol 8′ Contra
Gamba 8′ 16′
Viol 8′ Fagotto
Flute 4′ Viola 8′ Octave
Octave 4′ 8′
Quint Viol 51⁄3′ Fagotto
Nazard 22⁄3′ Tromba 8′
Octave Viol 4′
Violina 4′ Clarion 4′

Tierce 31⁄5′
String
Mixture V
Viol Cornet
IV

Ethereal Organ
V Ethereal VI Stentor Ethereal Pedal

Bourdon 16′ Cello 1 (String) 8′ Acoustic Bass 32′

First Open Diapason 8′ Cello 1 # (String) 8′ Diapason 16′
Second Open Diapason 8′ Cello 1 ♭ (String) 8′ Bombarde 16′
Clear Flute 8′ Cello 2 (String) 8′ Bombarde 8′
Harmonic Flute 8′ Cello 2 # (String) 8′
Double Flute 8′ Cello 2 ♭ (String) 8′
Quint Flute 8′ Nasard Gamba II (String) 8′
Grand Gamba 8′ Nasard Gamba II # (String) 8′
Grand Gamba 8′ Clear Flute (Ethereal) 8′
Octavo 4′ Clear Flute (Ethereal) 4′
Harmonic Flute 4′
Twelfth Harmonic 22⁄3′
Harmonic Piccolo 2′
Mixture IV
Tuba Profunda 16′
Tuba Mirabilis 8′
French Trumpet 8′
Grand Clarinet 8′
Post Horn 8′
Tuba Clarion 4′
Echo Organ
Echo (floating) Echo Pedal

Bourdon 16′ Open Diapason 16′

Open Diapason 8′ Stopped Diapason 16′
Violin Diapason 8′
Stopped Diapason 8′
Night Horn 8′
Clarabella 8′
Melodia 8′
Orchestral Viol 8′
Soft Viol 8′
Soft Viol 8′
Unda Maris (2 ranks) 8′
Open Quint 51⁄3′
Octave 4′
Harmonic Flute 4′
Mellow Flute 4′
Cornet Mixture V
Mixture VI
Double Trumpet 16′
Trumpet 8′
Capped Oboe 8′
Euphone 8′
Vox Humana 8′

Orchestral Organ
Orchestral (floating) Vox Humana Chorus (floating) Vox Humana Chorus Pedal

Contra Quintadena 16′ Vox Humana 16′ First Vox Humana 16′
Duophone 8′ First Vox Humana 8′ Second Vox Humana 16′
Tibia 8′ Second Vox Humana 8′
Covered Tibia 8′ Third Vox Humana 8′
Concert Flute 8′ Fourth Vox Humana 8′
Harmonic Flute 8′ Fifth Vox Humana 8′
Mellow Flute 8′ Sixth Vox Humana 8′
String Flute 8′ Seventh Vox Humana 8′
Double Flute 8′
Hollow Flute 8′
Harmonic Flute 4′
Orchestral Flute 4′
Covered Flute 4′
Octave 4′
Harmonic Piccolo 2′
Super Octave 2′
English Horn 16′
Bass Clarinet 16′
Bass Saxophone 16′
Bassoon 16′
English Horn 8′
 Orchestral Clarinet 8′
FlugelHorn 8′
Orchestral Cromorne 8′
Saxophone 8′
Orchestral Bassoon 8′
Bassett Horn 8′
Oboe 8′
Orchestral Oboe 8′
Orchestral Trumpet 8′
First French Horn 8′
Second French Horn 8′
Third French Horn 8′
Kinura 8′
Muted Cornet 8′

String Organ
String (floating) String String Pedal

Violone 16′ Third Muted Violin 8′ Contra Diaphone 32′

First Contra Gamba 16′ Third Muted Violin # 8′ Diaphone (ext) 16′
Second Contra Gamba 16′ Third Muted Violin ♭ 8′ Diaphone (ext) 8′
First Contra Viol 16′ Fourth Muted Violin 8′ Contra Gamba 32′
Second Contra Viol 16′ Fourth Muted Violin # 8′ Gamba (ext) 16′
First Viol 16′ Fourth Muted Violin ♭ 8′ Gamba (ext) 8′
Second Viol 16′ Fifth Muted Violin 8′ First Violone 16′
Violin Diapason 8′ Fifth Muted Violin # 8′ Second Violone 16′
Gamba 8′ Fifth Muted Violin ♭ 8′ First Violone (ext) 8′
Nasard Gamba (2 ranks) 8′ Sixth Muted Violin 8′ Second Violone 8′
Nasard Gamba (2 ranks) 8′ Sixth Muted Violin # 8′ Violone 4′
First 'Cello 8′ Sixth Muted Violin ♭ 8′ Viol 16′
First 'Cello # 8′ First Dulciana 8′ Viol 16′
First 'Cello ♭ 8′ First Dulciana # 8′ Viol 8′
Second 'Cello 8′ Second Dulciana 8′ Viol 8′
Second 'Cello # 8′ Second Dulciana # 8′ Grand String Pedal Mixture
32′
Second 'Cello ♭ 8′ Third Dulciana 8′ XII
First Orchestral Violin 8′ Third Dulciana # 8′ Mutation Diaphone 16′
First Orchestral Violin # 8′ Fourth Dulciana 8′ Mutation Viol 16′
First Orchestral Violin ♭ 8′ Fourth Dulciana # 8′ Mutation Viol 102⁄3′
Second Orchestral Violin 8′ Fifth Dulciana 8′ Mutation Viol 8′
Second Orchestral Violin Fifth Dulciana # 8′ Mutation Viol 51⁄3′
8′
# Sixth Dulciana 8′ Mutation Viol 4′
Second Orchestral Violin Sixth Dulciana # 8′ Mutation Viol 22⁄3′
8′
♭
Quint Viol 51⁄3′ Mutation Viol 2′
Third Orchestral Violin 8′
Third Orchestral Violin # 8′ Quint Viol # 51⁄3′ Mutation Viol 13⁄5′
Third Orchestral Violin ♭ 8′ First Orchestral Violina 4′ Mutation Viol 11⁄3′
First Orchestral Violina # 4′ Mutation Viol 4⁄
Fourth Orchestral Violin 8′ 5′
Fourth Orchestral Violin # 8′ Second Orchestral Violina 4′
Fourth Orchestral Violin ♭ 8′ Second Orchestral Violina
4′
#
Fifth Orchestral Violin 8′
Tierce Viol 31⁄5′
 Fifth Orchestral Violin # 8′ Tierce Viol # 31⁄5′
Fifth Orchestral Violin ♭ 8′ Nasard Violina 22⁄3′
Sixth Orchestral Violin 8′
Nasard Violina # 22⁄3′
Sixth Orchestral Violin # 8′
Super Violina 2′
Sixth Orchestral Violin ♭ 8′
Super Violina # 2′
First Muted Violin 8′
First Octave Dulciana 4′
First Muted Violin # 8′
First Octave Dulciana # 4′
First Muted Violin ♭ 8′
Second Octave Dulciana 4′
Second Muted Violin 8′
Second Octave Dulciana # 4′
Second Muted Violin # 8′
Dulciana Mutation V
Second Muted Violin ♭ 8′

Stentor Division
Tuba Magna (from 8′) 16′
Tuba Magna 8′

Percussion Division
Percussion

Major Chimes C–c1

Minor Chimes G–G
Metalophone C–C2
Celeste C–c2
Piano I (prepared for)
Piano II standard 88 notes
Harp I tenor C–c2
Harp II (prepared for)
Gongs tenor C–C2
Crescendo Cymbal
Cymbalstar

Recordings
The Grand Court Organ(1973) included a number of works demonstrating the full organ
Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. 1975, the recording is of Keith Chapman’s own transcription of the piano suite
Airs & Arabesques (1976) explored the softer colors of the instrument to marvelous ef
fect
Virgil Fox Plays the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ(1964, 2004).
Keith Chapman – The Lost Radio Broadcasts- Vantage V2CD-698-002[11]
Xaver Varnus' concert [10]
Magic! (2001) By Peter Richard Conte
Wanamaker Legacy (2004) by Peter Conte
Midnight in the Grand Court(2004) by Peter Conte
Around the Wanamaker Organ in 80 Minutes, WanamakerDVD[12] (A DVD tour of the organ)

See also
Curtis Organ

Notes and references

 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98KYMpBx9og
2. https://theawesomer.com/the-wanamaker-organ/332131/
3. "The Top 20 - The World's Largest Pipe Organs"(http://www.sacredclassics.com/bigpipes.htm). Sacred Classics. Atlas
Communications. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
4. Biswanger, Ray (1999). Music in the Marketplace: The Story of Philadelphia's Historic W
anamaker Organ. The Friends of the
Wanamaker Organ Press.ISBN 0-9665552-0-1.
5. "Detour to 1904" (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/06/detour_to_1904.html)
. 9 June 2007.
6. Whitney, Craig R. (2003). All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters
. PublicAffairs New York. ISBN 1-
58648-173-8.
7. The Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists(http://www.agophila.org/pages/instruments/wanamaker.html) lists
all the stops on the organ and mentions the unrealized Stentor division.
8. CRAIG R. WHITNEY (June 9, 2007)."Amid the Shirts and Socks, a Concert Can Break Out"(https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/
09/arts/music/09orga.html/partner/rssnyt/?_r=1)
. The New York Times.
9. Whitney, Craig (April 1, 2003).All The Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ And Its American Masters(https://books.google.com/boo
ks?id=Il8AAwAAQBAJ). PublicAffairs. pp. 126–127. ISBN 9781586482626. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
10. Xaver Varnus (9 July 2011). "XAVER VARNUS IMPROVISE ON WANAMAKER, THE WORLD'S LARGEST PIPE ORGAN IN
PHILADELPHIA (1987)"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyrD_AS3Io) – via YouTube.
11. "The Wanamaker Organ on the Radio"(http://www.ohscatalog.org/wanoronrad.html).
12. "Around the Wanamaker Organ in 80 MinutesA DVD video tour of 28,482 pipes, their history and their sounds!"(http://www.ohsc
atalog.org/arwaorin80mi.html).

Biswanger, Ray (1999). Music in the Marketplace: The Story of Philadelphia's Historic W
anamaker Organ. The Friends of the
Wanamaker Organ Press.ISBN 0-9665552-0-1.

External links
Media related to Wanamaker Organ at Wikimedia Commons

Friends of the Wanamaker Organ

Pipe Dreams radio program, "Peter Conte and the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ"
Grand Court Organ, Wanamaker Dept. Store Philadelphia, PA
Video of the Wanamaker Organ being played by Virgil Fox
Jenkins, Charles S.P. "The Wanamaker Organ". Stories of London. Retrieved 2015-12-07.

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