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Old 12-30-2018, 08:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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When everything is made by hand, it's expensive. I used to work as an organ builder; just about everything in a pipe organ is still handmade. Organs are sized by "rank," which is one row of pipes spanning the compass of the keyboard, and the ballpark pricing is around $30,000 per rank. A typical moderate-size church organ is usually around 30 ranks, which will still take upwards of two years to build by 10 or so people. Even though the price seems astronomical, no one's getting rich off it because the money all goes into materials and time.
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