text:  And if you don't string them, if you don't play them, they lose that voice and therefore they lose that purpose for what they are. It's like taking a painting, hanging it on a wall and throwing a blanket over it. You know, oh, I'm going to protect it from light. Yeah, but nobody can appreciate it. So that got us thinking about we allow people to come into the archives and see incredibly rare and unique letters like the handwritten letters from Mo'i Kalakaua and his trip around the world. You can come in and ask to see those and we hand them to you. Why would we not do that with instruments?