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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.
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.
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The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre, volume, and construction throughout the keyboard compass.
- 3rd century BC
- Keyboard instrument (Aerophone)
- Organ, Church organ (used only for Pipe organs in houses of worship)
The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
May 28, 2018 · The first pipe organs were conceived and built in Greece around 200 BC. Later Greek authors claim that the organ was invented by one man, Ctesibius of Alexandria, a third century BC engineer. For him the organ served as a demonstration of the principles of hydraulics rather than as a musical instrument.
The term "organon" was first used by Plato (427?-347 b.c.) and Aristotle (384-322 b.c.) to denote any kind of tool; only later did it come to refer specifically to the well-engineered assembly of pipes and bellows that make up the musical instrument known in English as the organ.
Organ repertoire. The organ repertoire is considered to be the largest and oldest repertory of all musical instruments. [1] Because of the organ 's (or pipe organ 's) prominence in worship in Western Europe from the Middle Ages on, a significant portion of organ repertoire is sacred in nature.
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