Nathan Laube plays the Wanamaker Organ

Nathan Laube playing the Wanamaker Organ. These are clips from some of my home movies.

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[bobo62191]

is this a pipe organ or an electronic one?

[Tom1980nj]

@bobo62191 Oh its pipe!  ;-)

[julorg]

I don't know thes piece...

When did you record those videos ?

[Tom1980nj]

I would have to look all that up, It was the Day Fred Swann played the AM concert, Nathan played the afternoon one. I have some clips to digitize from Wanamaker Day yesterday too.

[Tom1980nj]

Sorry forgot to put in that it was when the store was still Lord & Taylor before it switched to Macy's. The building was nearly empty - the best the organ has sounded! Amazing accustics when its empty in there.

[pdleavitt]

Who can shop for clothes when such fabulous music on an incredible instrument is booming through the store? It's surreal!

[mpsnknox]

your comparing apples to oranges.... and besides... its only your opinion. Every organ is differnat. And funny you mentioned two organs that have absolutely nothing in common. What makes them "better"? It is purely speculative.

[justinsokoloski]

although this is really awesome why in the world is there a giant pipe organ in a department store?

[silverstartrucker]

Pity about the weak tinny sound

[Markperry123]

ya this organ is a 6 manual for newbies to point out the word manual means how many rows of keys the organ has

[Streetcar1743]

@MelosAntropon Yes indeed. As a student organist like me, if you want to be a professional organist, you have to get used to playing organs of many, many different sizes. You are right. It's many different types of organs blended into this one huge organ. One neat thing about a Hammond that you wouldn't get on an organ this size is that Hammond organs are electric and don't take up as much space as a pipe organ. This is one reason why as a beginner, I am learning on a 3 manual.

[MelosAntropon]

@Streetcar1743 : Truthfully, this is a Baroque/Romantic/British/Ameri­can Classic/Orchestral/Theatre/Fai­rground(!) organ - it was designed that way. It is a very good organ. But divest yourself of the notion that "bigger is always better" in organs, *if* you happen to hold that view. It ain't necessarily so. I'd love to play this organ. But I can think of a dozen organs - one sixth it's size - I'd rather have the opportunity to play.

[MelosAntropon]

@bobo62191 : 100% pipe. Finished long before electronic organs became common.

[goodchappy]

@bobo62191 ?! er yes about 33,000 of them. This clip does not give a very good idea of what it sounds like.

[Streetcar1743]

Now for shopping music, this is what I call shopping music. Hearing other pieces played on this organ, this one has to be a theatre organ. It has some of the stops you would find on a theatre organ and not on a church organ. Plus only a few organs have 6 manuals. The one in Atlantic City has the most amount of manuals which is 7. A pipe organ like this could blow the tattoos off of the gang members in Philly.

[person1756]

@bobo62191 Look up "Wanamaker Organ" on Wikipedia. It's the biggest totally functional pipe organ in the world.

[robertgift]

Boring piece.

A "church" piece for mindless church-goers?

With so many wonderful organ compositions, th.is a waste of time and wind.