Wanamaker Organ Day 2009 - Walt Strony - “Over the Rainbow“

The Wanamaker Organ has 466 ranks, and is the largest playable pipe organ in the world. Commanding these huge resources is a massive console with six ivory keyboards and 729 color-coded stop tablets. There are 168 piston buttons under the keyboards and 42 foot controls. The console weighs 2.5 tons; the entire instrument weighs 287 tons. The smallest pipe is a quarter-inch in length. More than 8,000 pipes were added to the Organ between 1911 and 1917, and from 1924 to 1930 an additional 10,000 pipes