< LAST week's mystery object may have proved a bit of a challenge - particularly for those less musically inclined.

It was, in fact, a brass pipe that was originally from a pipe organ.

Multiple pipes such as this are arranged within the organ and tuned to produce a musical scale.

Pipe organs can be found in public and religious buildings such as churches and concert halls. Sound is produced by driving pressurised air through individual pipes. This then produces notes of differing timbre and pitch which can be selected via a keyboard individually, or in combination, to play music.

Pipe organs can be traced back in history to Ancient Greece in the third century BC when the pressurised air was created using water pressure.

Later, during the sixth and seventh centuries AD, bellows were introduced to supply the organs with air.

We are now inviting guesses about the origins on this week's object.

Email your suggestions to news@cravenherald.co.uk

Both items are on display in Craven Museum and Gallery, which is located in Skipton Town Hall.