My mom used to work in an office around the corner. She remembers people saying “Meet me at the eagle “ I showed her your videos at Thanksgiving , she said it brought back such wonderful memories 😊
Scott I can’t tell you what an absolute pleasure it was to be there with you and enjoy this concert… I’m still tearing up when I listen to Silent Night… so beautiful and I can imagine that it’s exactly what it sounds like in heaven for my Mom…as I told you it was her favorite carol… this will now be an annual trip for me to enjoy that amazing music! Thank you again my dear friend! ❤🎄🎁 ❄️Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Love how magical Christmas music sounds on the organ. Tonight is my concert at my church. Wish you could come hear the choir and yours truly on the organ.
Absolutely gorgeous, Scott. Not sure if you are aware or not but the organ was built for and used here in Saint Louis for the 1904 World’s Fair. It was later dismantled and moved to Philadelphia. I would love to hear it in person someday. Thanks for sharing !! 🎄
This brings back memories of my friend who has passed. She took me to see the light show for the first time. Actually, it was my very first time in Wanamakers. She's a grand ole store. Sad to see so few shoppers this time of year.
Thank you Scott! I have such fond memories of Christmas in Wanamaker! I loved the crowds , the beautiful counters, there used to be soo many people! We would all gather shoulder to shoulder to watch the show. Merry Christmas!
I really enjoyed hearing the organ music. Silent Night always brings back memories playing Silent Night for my grandmother on the piano at Christmas. God bless you, Scott.
Thank you Scott for bringing back such wonderful childhood memories. My family would take me to Center city to hear the pipe organ and see the Christmas light show. Having lunch at the Wanamaker‘s tea room was a very special treat. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Love you delco friend.🎄💚🎄
Thank you. A major part of my Christmas memories Involve music. From playing piano or guitar while my family sang carols to marching with a clarinet in the parades. I think that I would tremble if my fingers were to create a sound of that magnitude. Always loved the majesty of orchestra concerts with violins and French horns. Organ music is the same in its glorious, soulful expression. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄🌟🎉
Lovely organ music! I truly enjoyed the video of the Wanamaker store. I am looking forward to hearing Silent Night at Ebenezer Lutheran Church on Christmas eve.
Oh Scott I thoroughly enjoyed this! I have such a love for pipe organs. Oh my Silent Night! This really lifts the spirit. Thanks so much for showing the organist. I hope all those people know there is a real person playing that beautiful music !
Seeing the inside of that department store brings back memories of shopping in them as a young person in the town I grew up in. Portland, OR. You can't match that experience on line!
I watched this last year and enjoyed it then as i do now ,i can only imagine how beautiful the building is it looks so grand. Thank you Scott you have given me the best Christmas card with beautiful music ever.this will be your first Christmas in your new/old house now to make your own memories. May you have the happiest Christmas this year. God bless you and thanks again for all you do and the joy you bring to so many .Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you Scott from all of us you take us every where 🎄We all love Christmas music and shopping with you . We love watching all the work on you new house . God Bless you Scott 🎅🏻
What a glorious way to begin my day. I was an organist in my younger days, and even though I can no longer play, I adore the sounds that only an organ can produce. From the bottom of my heart I appreciate this gift you have given me and everyone else. Merry Christmas
Sorry I couldn't listen to the music but I thank you and will smash the like button .for you have inspired my trip down memory lane when department stores had Christmas displays in their humongous windows sadly those stores are gone and taken the magic with them😲💝👋🙋🏼♀️👋💝
So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I had to know more about this amazing piece of history and so I went down the rabbit hole through the department store museum online. Fascinating history!! I also found the department store I grew up in, Gilmores of Kalamazoo. We didn’t have a organ, but there was the Gilmore Santa and a wonderful parade.
Actually, the largest functioning theatre organ sits in the middle of an old warehouse in Wisconsin, with several thousand ranks of wooden, tin & brass pipes & reeds, 2 pianos, 3 octave carillon, string section, full percussion, chimes, concertina, 3 auto horns, xylophone & glockenspiel, sleigh bells, and multiple sound effects. In an interview a couple years ago, the owner said he'd spent over $1.5 million to restore the entire instrument, but not including pieces he owned but hadn't yet restored & installed. Now, I've never seen or heard the Wannamaker theatre organ in person. But, I do know that it's one of five or six remaining functional theatre organs left in the United States.
The Wanamaker Organ in the Grand Hall is actually not a theater organ but rather a symphonic organ with the power of several symphony orchestra. In the Wanamaker Building there is a small theater organ located in a separate room.
Scott, I'll say it yet again, you're the Top Man for showing a video like that on Christmas week. How beautiful everything looks and sounds. Perfect ! Thank you so very much. Kind regards to you .... 🎄👏😉🧑🎄🎄
How lovely. Such a wonderful organ. So. What's the story with the eagle of the "meet at the eagle" ? It looks more like the kind of thing that would be on a building facade not inside.
Just one correction in this video. The uploader said this is the largest pipe organ in the world.... not exactly.... the largest one is in Atlantic City (of all places) right on the boardwalk or which I am sure many of you walked right past its without ever knowing that the unassuming building harbored this massive ( over 40,000 pipe organ behinmd its doors. It still works till this day and concerts are given regularly. During the heyday of Atlantic City people were too interested in the casinos to know or care about the organ and I don't remember it being advertised much or in much use until other venues countrywide started restoring/utilizing their organs and people began seeing how versatile these instruments are, that the Atlantic City started working on restoring it's organ. Been a couple of years in the doing. More than half of the organ worked initially, so it was utilized in that state while the other half was repaired/restored, which it totally is today. Great to see these masterpieces evade the wrecking ball, but would like to see these organs used to their potential more than they are. All types of music can be played on them... just takes the right organist to make them come alive
Actually that is not exactly what I said. I said it was the largest "functioning" organ in the world and I am very very familiar with the AC organ. I attend the receitals several times during the summer and have contributed to help with the restoration. At present, the AC organ is only about 60 percent playable and it will be several years before it is fully restored. Just wanted to clarify. :) Both instruments are amazing and since they are only about 60 miles apart......everyone who visits this area should go and hear them both. Thanks for watching. :)
Yes. It was built for the 1904 fair and then after the fair was purchased by John Wanamaker and shipped to Philadelphia and installed in his new store in 1911. The organ was dramatically increased in size and is now the largest fully playing pipe organ in the world.
1:45 My dad did service calls on pipe organs. Said AC Boardwalk Convention Center Organ was largest. (Guinness Book of World Records concurs) His knowledge got him behind the scenes tours of both. Great instrument but being displaced by the inferior piano so organists are in shortage. Pope St. Pius X banned pianos and bands from his Archdiocese and promoted the organ as most suitable for the Latin Rite.
Correct....the Atlantic City organ is larger. Notice that I said the Wanamaker organ was the "largest fully functional" organ in the world. The AC organ was terribly damaged in the storm of 1944 and has not be fully playable since. Amazing restoration is taking place but it will be many years before the organ is 100 percent playable again.
@@oldcuriosityshop265 Actually, you are both wrong about the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ. Because, it IS NOT a pipe organ. It is in fact a theatre organ, because it also contains percussion & sound effects ranks. A pipe organ does not have those ranks. Pipe organs were meant for churches & cathedrals mainly. While theatre organs were meant for use in just that...theaters. Movie & live theaters would often have a theatre organ installed because the expense, while astronomical, would often be cheaper than what they were paying for an orchestra. Plus, they could do things an orchestra couldn't...sound effects that were used during the silent films. So, although both types of organs are in the same main instrument category, they are separated by sub categories...pipe organs & theatre organs. The AC Boardwalk CC Organ is the largest theatre organ in the world, while the Wanamaker Organ is the largest pipe organ in the world. I know, I know. You're thinking "Clear as mud!".
@@oldcuriosityshop265 Yes, they both have pipes. You are right on that point. But, a pipe organ DOES NOT contain a drum kit & various other rhythm instruments, sound effects, a piano, car horns, etc... As I stated, both fall under the same main category, but are different types of organs. I get my information straight from the American Theater Organ Society (ATOS). According to your philosophy, it's just like throwing all of the Olympic athletes into one big category & calling Michael Phelps the greatest Olympic athlete in the world. And, now I've grown bored with you.
I don't think you heard me closely.....I said it was the world's largest fully functioning organ in the world. I'm very familiar with the AC organ which was damaged in the 1944 great Atlantic storm. Although the current restoration is amazing....it will be several more years before the organ is close to 100 percent playable. Currently it's about 60 percent playable and sounds fantastic. :)
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My mom used to work in an office around the corner. She remembers people saying “Meet me at the eagle “ I showed her your videos at Thanksgiving , she said it brought back such wonderful memories 😊
Oh yes....."Meet me at the eagle" has been said for well over 100 years!
What a great recollection 🥰
My parents bought me a small organ when I was a kid and at Christmas I would play Christmas songs and we would sing. Wow. That’s an old memory
Scott I can’t tell you what an absolute pleasure it was to be there with you and enjoy this concert… I’m still tearing up when I listen to Silent Night… so beautiful and I can imagine that it’s exactly what it sounds like in heaven for my Mom…as I told you it was her favorite carol… this will now be an annual trip for me to enjoy that amazing music! Thank you again my dear friend! ❤🎄🎁 ❄️Merry Christmas to you and your family!
When Scott said he was sharing
with a friend I thought of you don't know why. Bless your heart and glad you got a chance to start new traditions.
Scott, thank you being you and for sharing your life of us. God bless you and Jesus loves you, more than anyone ever could. ❤❤❤❤
Beautiful rendition of the hymn Oh come let us adore Him.
The different lighting sequences.Beautiful.Oh Silent Night,so beautifully played..tears to my eyes.
Helen, I wish you could hear it in person!
It must be magnificent
Soaking in the perfection & beauty 🕊… blessings & peace to all 🙏.
I like the sepia tone part.
The organist put a little Rick Wakeman into it !😮👍♥️
Amazing! Shopping there would be great!
Love how magical Christmas music sounds on the organ. Tonight is my concert at my church. Wish you could come hear the choir and yours truly on the organ.
Wish I could too.
Aaron, I wish I was you tonight. What a wonderful experience ❤
Thank-you Scott
Thank you !
Beautiful!
Absolutely gorgeous, Scott. Not sure if you are aware or not but the organ was built for and used here in Saint Louis for the 1904 World’s Fair. It was later dismantled and moved to Philadelphia. I would love to hear it in person someday. Thanks for sharing !! 🎄
Very pretty place. Beautiful ambience. It seems empty for 1 week away from Christmas.
This brings back memories of my friend who has passed. She took me to see the light show for the first time. Actually, it was my very first time in Wanamakers. She's a grand ole store. Sad to see so few shoppers this time of year.
Absolutely amazing and beautiful
Thank you for sharing. Love the pipe organ. Look forward to you sharing it with us. Merry Christmas
Oh, Scott! Thank you so much!!! Hippie Holly-Daze to you and all of yours.
What a wonderful sound that organ makes must fill up the entire Grand court. Lovely show thanks so much for sharing Scott.
Lovely to see the tradition continue.
Thank you for sharing. I ended up looking at the history of the department store and organ.
What a beautiful old store!
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful, thank you and Merry Christmas!
Thank you Scott! I have such fond memories of Christmas in Wanamaker! I loved the crowds , the beautiful counters, there used to be soo many people! We would all gather shoulder to shoulder to watch the show. Merry Christmas!
GOOD EVENING SCOTT 🎄and thanks for this treasured memory.
Beautiful!!! 🎄☃️❤️
I’ve been waiting for this! Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Thanks for sharing this again. Lovely!
It is like you just sent me the nicest Christmas card ever . Thank you, Scott, Merry Christmas.
Used to go to Wanamaker's, Strawbridge and Clothier and Bamberger's! 🎄🎄🎄
One. Of. The. Largest. Pipe. Organs. In. The. World. I Like. To. Go. There. And. Hear. It.
WOW! No words😮😍 Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 ❤
Wow. I had never seen the console of the organ before, that’s pretty impressive and what a beautiful sound. Just beautiful.
Love finding these musical treats at the end of a day, thank you, Scott, and Virgil too.😊
Thank you for sharing. I love hearing Silent Night being played. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for sharing always enjoy
This always warms my heart. Thank you so much for sharing, Scott.
Its beautiful and so is the music.
I really enjoyed hearing the organ music. Silent Night always brings back memories playing Silent Night for my grandmother on the piano at Christmas. God bless you, Scott.
Wow thanks for the trip Scott.
Thank you Scott for bringing back such wonderful childhood memories. My family would take me to Center city to hear the pipe organ and see the Christmas light show. Having lunch at the Wanamaker‘s tea room was a very special treat. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Love you delco friend.🎄💚🎄
❤ Happiest Holiday wishes to you.
Thank you Scott
This is late January and I am still enjoying this. Just wonderful.
Thank you. A major part of my Christmas memories Involve music. From playing piano or guitar while my family sang carols to marching with a clarinet in the parades. I think that I would tremble if my fingers were to create a sound of that magnitude. Always loved the majesty of orchestra concerts with violins and French horns. Organ music is the same in its glorious, soulful expression. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄🌟🎉
I enjoy this every year since I found your channel....Thank you very much Scott. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Thank you for taking the time to film this and share it with us. Very beautiful!
👏🏻 Wonderful! 👏🏻 Thank you for sharing the beautiful music from that amazing pipe organ, once again! ❤️
Thank you so much for sharing Scott
Lovely organ music! I truly enjoyed the video of the Wanamaker store. I am looking forward to hearing Silent Night at Ebenezer Lutheran Church on Christmas eve.
Lovely ❤
Thank you, Scott. ❤
Scott, thank you so much for sharing! Just beautiful!
I look forward to this every year now. Thank you Scott!
Love it! 🎄❤🎅🏻
Oh Scott I thoroughly enjoyed this! I have such a love for pipe organs. Oh my Silent Night! This really lifts the spirit. Thanks so much for showing the organist. I hope all those people know there is a real person playing that beautiful music !
Thank you Dot. I’m saving your cookie vids to watch during Christmas week! Merry Christmas to you and family!
@@oldcuriosityshop265 Merry Christmas Scott!
Seeing the inside of that department store brings back memories of shopping in them as a young person in the town I grew up in. Portland, OR. You can't match that experience on line!
You are so kind to film this for us! Merry Christmas!
I watched this last year and enjoyed it then as i do now ,i can only imagine how beautiful the building is it looks so grand. Thank you Scott you have given me the best Christmas card with beautiful music ever.this will be your first Christmas in your new/old house now to make your own memories. May you have the happiest Christmas this year. God bless you and thanks again for all you do and the joy you bring to so many .Merry Christmas 🎄
Beautiful, all of it!! Thank you, Scott!! Merry Christmas!! 🤩🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻✌️🥰
Lovely thank you and Happy Christmas ⭐⭐
Thank you Scott from all of us you take us every where 🎄We all love Christmas music and shopping with you . We love watching all the work on you new house . God Bless you Scott 🎅🏻
I love it! Such memories of laying on the floor watching. What is this building now?
It is still called the John Wanamaker Building.
What a glorious way to begin my day. I was an organist in my younger days, and even though I can no longer play, I adore the sounds that only an organ can produce. From the bottom of my heart I appreciate this gift you have given me and everyone else. Merry Christmas
Wonderful and thank you and a very Happy Christmas to you
Very beautiful!!
Thank You for sharing!!
Thank you Scott for this beautiful holiday treat!
Merry Christmas!🙏🎄❤
Was there last week. Love this organ.
did still have the water fountains?
@@willieg9731 Didn't see water fountains.
Love the tree Scotty!
Scott I just found a you tube video by Alex Rivera on the Wannamaker organ!
Sorry I couldn't listen to the music but I thank you and will smash the like button .for you have inspired my trip down memory lane when department stores had Christmas displays in their humongous windows sadly those stores are gone and taken the magic with them😲💝👋🙋🏼♀️👋💝
So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I had to know more about this amazing piece of history and so I went down the rabbit hole through the department store museum online. Fascinating history!!
I also found the department store I grew up in, Gilmores of Kalamazoo. We didn’t have a organ, but there was the Gilmore Santa and a wonderful parade.
What an incredible sight to watch and hear this! Thank you for sharing this with us! I can’t even imagine how majestic this sounds in person!!
Ahh such precious times :3
How majestic ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
Beautiful thank you
Actually, the largest functioning theatre organ sits in the middle of an old warehouse in Wisconsin, with several thousand ranks of wooden, tin & brass pipes & reeds, 2 pianos, 3 octave carillon, string section, full percussion, chimes, concertina, 3 auto horns, xylophone & glockenspiel, sleigh bells, and multiple sound effects. In an interview a couple years ago, the owner said he'd spent over $1.5 million to restore the entire instrument, but not including pieces he owned but hadn't yet restored & installed.
Now, I've never seen or heard the Wannamaker theatre organ in person. But, I do know that it's one of five or six remaining functional theatre organs left in the United States.
The Wanamaker Organ in the Grand Hall is actually not a theater organ but rather a symphonic organ with the power of several symphony orchestra. In the Wanamaker Building there is a small theater organ located in a separate room.
Absolutely beautiful! What a wonderful Christmas treat! Thank you for sharing this with everyone!
Scott, I'll say it yet again, you're the Top Man for showing a video like that on Christmas week. How beautiful everything looks and sounds. Perfect ! Thank you so very much. Kind regards to you .... 🎄👏😉🧑🎄🎄
It's beautiful
Who owns the building and the organ? Can you share a picture or two of the eagle and its history. Be safe and have fun.
I can do that for sure in a future video. Thank you for asking.
Is the entire building the department store, or is it a mall? This was wonderful, just beautiful, thank you!
It is not a shopping mall. The store was opened in 1911 as the John Wanamaker Department Store and the building is massive.
Beautiful ❤️😍😍
How lovely. Such a wonderful organ. So. What's the story with the eagle of the "meet at the eagle" ? It looks more like the kind of thing that would be on a building facade not inside.
That bronze eagle has been on the store floor since 1911 and everyone in Philly knows the prase "meet me at the eagle"!
Just one correction in this video.
The uploader said this is the largest pipe organ in the world.... not exactly.... the largest one is in Atlantic City (of all places) right on the boardwalk or which I am sure many of you walked right past its without ever knowing that the unassuming building harbored this massive ( over 40,000 pipe organ behinmd its doors.
It still works till this day and concerts are given regularly. During the heyday of Atlantic City people were too interested in the casinos to know or care about the organ and I don't remember it being advertised much or in much use until other venues countrywide started restoring/utilizing their organs and people began seeing how versatile these instruments are, that the Atlantic City started working on restoring it's organ.
Been a couple of years in the doing. More than half of the organ worked initially, so it was utilized in that state while the other half was repaired/restored, which it totally is today.
Great to see these masterpieces evade the wrecking ball, but would like to see these organs used to their potential more than they are. All types of music can be played on them... just takes the right organist to make them come alive
Actually that is not exactly what I said. I said it was the largest "functioning" organ in the world and I am very very familiar with the AC organ. I attend the receitals several times during the summer and have contributed to help with the restoration. At present, the AC organ is only about 60 percent playable and it will be several years before it is fully restored. Just wanted to clarify. :) Both instruments are amazing and since they are only about 60 miles apart......everyone who visits this area should go and hear them both. Thanks for watching. :)
Hearing that organ always brings tears to my eyes.....such a treat
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Put an emergency cover over the tutti FFF stop, it might level the building in the wrong hands
Did you onetime say the organ came from St Louis...that's where I live
Yes. It was built for the 1904 fair and then after the fair was purchased by John Wanamaker and shipped to Philadelphia and installed in his new store in 1911. The organ was dramatically increased in size and is now the largest fully playing pipe organ in the world.
What's the title of the song that begins at the 2:14 mark of the video?
I would like to know the name of this song also.
Gesu Bambino by Pietro Yon
1:45 My dad did service calls on pipe organs. Said AC Boardwalk Convention Center Organ was largest. (Guinness Book of World Records concurs) His knowledge got him behind the scenes tours of both. Great instrument but being displaced by the inferior piano so organists are in shortage. Pope St. Pius X banned pianos and bands from his Archdiocese and promoted the organ as most suitable for the Latin Rite.
Correct....the Atlantic City organ is larger. Notice that I said the Wanamaker organ was the "largest fully functional" organ in the world. The AC organ was terribly damaged in the storm of 1944 and has not be fully playable since. Amazing restoration is taking place but it will be many years before the organ is 100 percent playable again.
@@oldcuriosityshop265
Actually, you are both wrong about the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ. Because, it IS NOT a pipe organ. It is in fact a theatre organ, because it also contains percussion & sound effects ranks. A pipe organ does not have those ranks.
Pipe organs were meant for churches & cathedrals mainly. While theatre organs were meant for use in just that...theaters. Movie & live theaters would often have a theatre organ installed because the expense, while astronomical, would often be cheaper than what they were paying for an orchestra. Plus, they could do things an orchestra couldn't...sound effects that were used during the silent films.
So, although both types of organs are in the same main instrument category, they are separated by sub categories...pipe organs & theatre organs.
The AC Boardwalk CC Organ is the largest theatre organ in the world, while the Wanamaker Organ is the largest pipe organ in the world.
I know, I know. You're thinking "Clear as mud!".
@@Nacho-Mamma Sorry boss but you simply aren’t correct. A theater organ IS a pipe organ. A symphonic organ IS a pipe organ. They both contain pipes.
@@oldcuriosityshop265
Yes, they both have pipes. You are right on that point. But, a pipe organ DOES NOT contain a drum kit & various other rhythm instruments, sound effects, a piano, car horns, etc...
As I stated, both fall under the same main category, but are different types of organs. I get my information straight from the American Theater Organ Society (ATOS).
According to your philosophy, it's just like throwing all of the Olympic athletes into one big category & calling Michael Phelps the greatest Olympic athlete in the world.
And, now I've grown bored with you.
Macy's. Macy's. Macy's. It's now the Philadelphia*Macy's* store.
I know that John. The building is still officially called the Wanamaker Building, the organ is the Wanamaker Organ.
X O X O
Although this is a great organ, it is not the largest in the world. The one in Atlantic city is the largest.
I don't think you heard me closely.....I said it was the world's largest fully functioning organ in the world. I'm very familiar with the AC organ which was damaged in the 1944 great Atlantic storm. Although the current restoration is amazing....it will be several more years before the organ is close to 100 percent playable. Currently it's about 60 percent playable and sounds fantastic. :)