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Depiction of an organ in the Utrecht Psalter. Late 10th century organ, Moissac Abbey. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, [3] dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria (285–222 BC), who invented the water organ.
Organ, in music, a keyboard instrument, operated by the player’s hands and feet, in which pressurized air produces notes through a series of pipes organized in scalelike rows. The term organ encompasses reed organs and electronic organs but, unless otherwise specified, is usually understood to refer to pipe organs.
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The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
The pipe organ was both the most important musical instrument and, along with the clock, the most complicated machine of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Background. The very name "organ" reveals the dual place of that instrument in the history of music and the history of technology.
May 28, 2018 · The earliest known use of the term, organon, was used by Plato and Aristotle in the 4 th century BC to denote a tool or 'instrument' in a more general sense. In Plato's Republic and in the works of later Greek writers, organon denotes any kind or all kinds of musical instruments.
When was the organ invented? - Classical Music
History of the organ to 1800. The earliest history of the organ is so buried in antiquity as to be mere speculation. The earliest surviving record is of the Greek engineer Ctesibius, who lived in Alexandria in the 3rd century bc. He is credited with the invention of an organ very much on the lines of the single-manual, slider-chest organ ...
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