>> How does it feel to see a 12:50:14:18 beautiful sunset? To hear a Gustav Mahlar 12:50:19:12 symphony? It's an immensely satisfying 12:50:24:06 experience. ∂∂ 12:50:27:15 I just can't get enough of 12:50:27:18 hearing it. Still today, things like this 12:50:32:18 are the most complex musical compositions ever built, they're 7 almost the most complex machines ever built. This probably has on the order 12:50:47:06 of half a million separate parts. This organ was shipped from the 12:50:50:27 factory on December 23rd, 1927, and it's been here ever since. There's only a few hundred 12:50:59:24 theater organs left, and only a couple dozen still in their original theaters. The pipes were arranged in rank, 12:51:07:09 a set of pipes a rank to us organ people. There's one pipe per note. 12:51:14:00 Each rank is kind of like an 12:51:18:03 instrument in an orchestra. So what we want to do is 12:51:21:27 identify which pipe is out of tune and put it back into it. Different kinds of pipes have 12:51:29:09 different tuning methods. Usually requiring some piece to 12:51:32:18 be slid or adjusted in one way or another. ∂∂ 12:51:41:27 Jim rinks became the house 12:51:42:03 organist here about four years ago. Different organists have 12:51:50:06 different styles. Jim is very calm, very laid 12:51:53:24 back. He doesn't play movie scores. 12:51:56:03 He improvises his accompaniments 12:51:58:06 based on research that he's done about the film and themes that he writes for the characters and the situations. But he's putting it all together 12:52:11:09 in real time, which is an extremely creative thing to do. He is making art while 3,000 12:52:16:03 people watch. ∂∂ 12:52:19:15 Set that one. 12:52:19:21 Most all the scores for silent 12:52:25:27 films are now lost. 8 What I like to do is compose my 12:52:29:12 own music and I like to do it largely on the spot. Because that's the way art 12:52:36:09 should be. It should be when it's created 12:52:38:00 in front of an audience, it just shouldn't be the same old. >> It's the only theater organ 12:52:45:09 in Seattle left in its original location. The sound of this organ in this 12:52:51:24 room is a sound you can't hear anywhere else. ∂∂ 12:52:57:00 >> Go to STGpresents.org for 12:53:13:03 more info about silent movie mondays at the paramount theater. The series includes Pandora's 12:53:22:09 box and Peter pan and wraps up with the buster keaton classic "the general." ∂∂ 12:53:30:24 [splashing water] 12:53:35:12