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Go inside the Wanamaker Organ, the world’s largest playable instrument

A look at the inner workings of the maze of pipes and baffles and bellows and wires and wooden stairways hidden in the Macy's on Market Street.

Peter Batchelder (chief of tuning) tunes the French horn in the orchestral chamber of the Wanamaker organ at Macy's in Center City in 2008.
Peter Batchelder (chief of tuning) tunes the French horn in the orchestral chamber of the Wanamaker organ at Macy's in Center City in 2008.Read moreEric Mencher / Staff Photographer