Each organization has learned how to produce a flute. The knowledge has been learned collectively, not individually. It is true that each flutemaker knows how to perform his or her individual tasks; but the know-how required to make the flute as a whole resides with the organization, not with the individual flutemaker because only the workshop as a whole can make the flute. This is demonstrated in the fact that when flutemakers have left one of the workshops, the know-how needed to make the flute has not been lost to the organization, as evidenced in the samenss of play and feel of instruments produced by that workshop over the years. The workshop has continued to make flutes of the same quality and style as before because it-the organization, not the individual-possesses the know-how and the ability to make its own particular style of instrument. Typically, neither the flutes nor the way they are made have changed when flutemakers have left one of the workshops.