[Low-Tech] Musical Instruments: Water & Pipe Organ?

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Dalillama

Per the Association of Organ Builders, a new organ built today (and thus using approximate GURPS dollars) starts at $850,000 for the very smallest pipe organ built new. Given the rest of your post about the difficulties of making them in the past, I can't imagine it would be less.

I don't know, I suspect something called the Association of Organ Builders isn't going to turn out anything less than good, or possibly fine quality work. If you subcontract your pipes to the local auto body shops and cut them from plumbing supplies, they'll be cheaper.

But my point is the native scale of the project is "nice building", not a "nice piece of furniture" scale one a lot of musical instruments would be.