Kennst du das Gebäude? Ein Konzertraum dort ist utopisch. Die Orgel ist auf das ganze Gebäude verteilt.

Zitat von Aeoline im Beitrag #4

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Es scheint, als ob keiner von denen an Orgeln interessiert ist - obwohl die meisten von ihnen Pfeifen sind.

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Zitat von Flauten im Beitrag #5

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Siehe beispielsweise Mr. T. bei der Wiedereröffnung der NotreDame in Paris:
Das Gesicht sprach beim meisterlichen Spiel der Orgel Bände und spiegelte den großen Intellekt dieses AmGa-Speakers . . .

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Zitat von Aeoline im Beitrag #4

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Es scheint, als ob keiner von denen an Orgeln interessiert ist - obwohl die meisten von ihnen Pfeifen sind.

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Hey there, an American in Los Angeles County about 20 miles from one of the smoldering fires there right now...

The Wanamaker Building in Philadelphia has more "historical" status protections than most buildings and that makes it more likely that the organ will be integrated into whatever the building becomes. However, I want to re-iterate (as I've typed elsewhere here) that the United States has minimal/negligible support for "pipe organ culture." The only stable support for pipe organs come from professional organ associations, "wealthy" churches of particular bents, wealthy colleges and universities, and major concert halls in the biggest urban areas. In general, the vast majority of Americans (it feels like more than 99%) don't know or don't care about pipe organs.

However, American nationalism/state-ism swagger has been a thing since we formed and started acting on the concept of "Manifest Destiny"* and negotiated/stole land to "grow" the country in the 19th century. If there's something American to talk about, it always has to be/is dreamed to be/is pretended to be the very ___ist, that is biggest, widest, longest, most, and on and on. And this weird need applies to things that really don't have "the ___ist" capability. From my vantage point, both the Wanamaker and Boardwalk organs are the few extreme remnants of the U.S. past when we did focus on pipe organ culture to a much greater degree than now. As a state-ism example, there's a Texan saying that "everything is bigger in Texas"--it is partly based on some details in the historical past, but Texas is not the biggest state land-wise since Alaska became a state, it's not the biggest in population because California is, and even the largest county (division of a state) is in California.

Anyway, the swagger factor aside, I think the Wanamaker organ being in Philadelphia provides much better long-term than the Atlantic City Boardwalk organ because of Philadelphia's size, economic base, and location.

*This historical U.S. concept is now being invoked in the uninformed, arrogant, and, frankly, childish comments from proudly ignorant individuals who speak of the U.S. "acquiring"/buying Greenland, Canada, and other independent regions and countries.

Sorry for the thin information in my previous post...

A member of the another organ forum has been a part of the maintenance of the Wanamaker organ and has posted much more useful and detailed information than I've scrawled. Be sure to read all of his posts in that forum's topic.

https://organforum.com/forums/forum/blower-room/general-chat/857518-macy-s-closing-philadelphia-store-w-wanamaker-organ?p=857541#post857541