About 6 years ago I was visiting with some buddies up in Vermont, and we wound up visiting a store where they sold stuff rescued from old houses and buildings, molding, fancy doors, fixtures, etc. Laying there in the dust was a pile of square wooden tubes of various sizes, each with a slot at one end. After a few minutes trying to guess what it was, I finally figured out that we were looking at an old pipe organ, probably got taken out of an old church house. I don't want to imagine the level of effort it would take to make that pile of wooden parts into a functional instrument again, but I hope someone did.
