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I have one to tell... :D Old Bishop was...(nobody knows where) and Cathedral priest was complete ignorant and the entire cathedral was in terrible state, roof was in truly bad state, some day we're told new Bishop will be finally arriving and suddenly everything has to be fixed, city government sent bunches of fat dusty workers to repair roof, and they had no idea what was those pipes there, there was some lady of the "culture office" but she was caring of the vitrails only... anyway, me with four people had to disassemble the organ (pipes only) while the rest of guys was there already setting the scaffolds and we rapidly removed the pipes and stored them below the wind-chest. Few days later when roof repairing was complete, we found out assembling was slightly harder that dissembling :blink: Organ stops are like USB memories, available in 1,2,4,8,16,32 (possibly beyond that) with exceptions like 1 1/3, 2 2/3, 5 1/3.

So clearly, I'm not an organist, but here's my scary organ ignorance story… The fire alarm company was installing a new fire alarm system in the church sanctuary. Our organist came in to practice and saw a pair of feet dangling from the ceiling. "Oh, hey! Whatcha doing up there?" "New fire alarms, don't worry, I'm just about done… Hey, what are all these pipes?" Organist: "OH MY GOD! COME DOWN FROM THERE RIGHT NOW!!!" The guy had stepped all over everything, and having accidentally crushed one pipe really obviously, had thoughtfully tried to squeeze it back to a reasonable shape with a wrench. :horrified: Good thing the company had insurance. It was thousands and thousands of dollars of damage. Unfortunately, it was about a year before we could get on the schedule for the organ rebuilders to come and fix it all for us. So we only had about a half an organ for a while.