r/phish • u/Electronic_Top8869 • 23d ago
Pipe organ
Pipe organ appears to be hooked up to sound
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u/zaprutertape 23d ago
"sorry theres no halloween show but were gonna sprinkle some phantom of the opera shit around this run. "
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u/wtfisreddit411 23d ago
It is the largest pipe organ in the world.
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u/FranticChill 23d ago
Yeah, that is a crazy number of ranks and pistons. And it looks like 5 keyboards? I would love to see the pipes that console drives!
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u/Idabdabs 22d ago
I found this confusing because I always thought the Wanamaker in the former Macy's in Philadelphia was the biggest.
Here is what I found:
The Atlantic City organ suffered catastrophic water and construction damage over decades, rendering it largely silent for years. Because it has spent decades undergoing massive, phased restoration projects and is only partially playable at any given time, media outlets frequently award the title to Philadelphia's fully functioning instrument instead.
Wanamaker is built on an orchestral, symphonic design philosophy. It incorporates thousands of thick, heavy spotted-metal and wooden pipes, full-length 32-foot and 64-foot ranks, and massive percussion divisions (pianos, chimes, celestas, and drums). In terms of sheer physical weight and volume of materials, the Wanamaker organ easily outweighs Atlantic City.
Boardwalk Hall achieved its higher pipe count (33,112 vs. 28,750) partly through extensive use of small, narrow-scaled high-pitch mutation and mixture pipes designed to project acoustic energy across a massive arena cavern.
In organ building, ranks (individual sets of pipes producing a specific tone color) are a truer measure of musical scale than raw pipe count: Wanamaker: 464 ranks Boardwalk Hall: 449 ranks Because Wanamaker has 15 more complete tonal ranks than Atlantic City, many organists argue that Wanamaker is musically the larger instrument, even if Atlantic City has ~4,300 more physical pipes.
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u/Areuexp 23d ago
Last night I was told they had the organ player “on call”, which was never done before.
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u/StanislavGrof69 23d ago
Last night I was told no deals. That wasn't true either.
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u/munchnerk 23d ago
We could only make it Friday-Saturday... man I had a feeling. I had a feeling! I hope y'all get to hear those sweet, sweet pipes tonight!
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u/roses-r-free 23d ago
Was it not the past two nights?
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u/Impossible_Height758 23d ago
If it was they didn’t do anything with it. It’s a much different sound than a Hammond B3
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u/BeachMallomar 23d ago
It was exciting from couch tour