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A dark-haired woman sits in front of an organ.

"He acquired the organ two years before me, and it's been part of our family and it has really defined us."

The huge pipes of a grand organ almost reach the roof of a room

"You can play a violin or the trumpet or the piano and you're restricted to that one tonality, but this is like a giant one-man band, it's like a symphony orchestra."
A middle-aged man with glasses sits in front of a giant Wurlitzer organ

"My fear is that once we turn it off and pack it away, it will have no voice. And it is that voice that will make somebody fall in love with it,"
she said.

Sydney Conservatorium organist Grace Chan

"If you break it down, it is just creating a soundscape, and that is what they did when film started, so to create a mood, to create a scene."

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