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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.
The term organ encompasses reed organs and electronic organs but, unless otherwise specified, is usually understood to refer to pipe organs. Although it is one of the most complex of all musical instruments, the organ has the longest and most involved history and the largest and oldest extant repertoire of any instrument in Western music.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
When was the organ invented? - Classical Music
May 28, 2018 · The pressing of any one key opened wind to a row of pipes. Stops kept wind from operating all of the other pipes in the same row. By 1474, S. Petronio, Bologna, had a full scale 50 note organ with 9 stops. By the year 1500, the average organ in western Europe probably consisted of 10 separate stops.
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.
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