The Friends of the Wanamaker Organ-sponsored Symphonic Organ Restoration Symposium brings many of the Nation's top pipe-organ restorers to Philadelphia for intense educational courses and workshops on fine the art of historic electropneumatic pipe-organ restoration. Top practitioners share the special techniques they have devised to keep the country's great Symphonic pipe organs a vital presence on the American scene.

L. Curt Mangel, curator of the Wanamaker Organ and former curator of the famous Sanfilippo Collection of historic automated musical instruments in Barrington, Illinois, is the Symposium organizer. Evening and weekend educational field trips are occasionally included, taking participants to prominent pipe-organ and related sites in the greater Philadelphia area.

 

SPECIAL THANKS to those taking part in our June Wanamaker Organ Symposium, including John Adams, Roy and Laura Blanchard, Bill and Kim Bragg, Nathan Bryson, Jon Buchanan, William Cantonesye, Don Drury, Brant Duddy, Bob Knight, Tom Engstrom & Valerie Kuenst, Mary Ann Fry, Roger Lane, Curt Mangel, Steven Moore, John Mussina, Rick Seifert, Nik Sizgorich, Jim Stemke,  Maureen & Alex Thielens, Jim & Melanie Twyne, Alex Martin, David Tuck, Claire Whiting, Paul O'Connell, Charles Kegg, Anthony Nichols and  Sam Whitcraft. Please salute these people when you meet them during the Wanamaker Organ events-we simply could not do what we do without their tireless efforts on behalf of the Wanamaker Organ.