Hey, It Beats All-Day Muzak

When Center City Philadelphia’s department store, Wanamaker’s, was bought out, first by Hecht’s and then Macy’s, music aficionados worried that the store’s famous (and famously incongruous) pipe organ would be seen as an unnecessary frill. But Macy’s has embraced the unusual tradition of the in-store organ, and this year, the company allowed “devotees of the instrument [to] put in 61 more pipes and [gave] them thousands more square feet to set up an organ repair shop.”