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The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria (285–222 BC), who invented the water organ. It was played throughout the Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman world, particularly during races and games.
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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.
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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.
The earliest surviving keyboard compositions (keyboard music was not instrument-specific until the sixteenth century) are from England ( Robertsbridge Codex c. 1365) and Italy ( Faenza Codex, 15th century). The organ is specified in Marco Antonio Cavazzoni 's Recerchari, motetti, canzoni [...] libro primo, printed in Venice in 1523.
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