A song is clutch and perhaps even more valuable than gold, because you can play it anywhere, and is just as elusive as it is embracing. What was that Andy Dufresne line, in The Shawshank Redemption?

“That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you.”

Ah, that was it. Yes. The wife-killing banker who turned out not to be a wife-killing banker had a great point.

And in the following clip Army Staff Sgt. Dan Campolieta, the piano accompanist for the U.S. Army Chorus, demonstrates this point by playing “The Army Song” to mark the branch’s 241st birthday, which came on June 14 (also Flag Day) … on the largest working organ in the entire world.

The behemoth sound machine is called the Wanamaker Organ and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, echoey chambers of the Wanamaker Building in Center City.

Quite the melody maker. Quite the performance.