Pipe organ
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The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes ar
Pipe organ in the collegiate church of St. Michael in Neunkirchen am Brand
Hydraulis from the 1st century BC, oldest organ found to date, Museum of Dion, Greece
4th-century AD "Mosaic of the Female Musicians" from a Byzantine villa in Maryamin, Syria.
9th-century image of an organ, from the Utrecht Psalter.
Organ (music)
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In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, sometimes up to five or more, manuals for playing w
Pipe organ
…in the 3rd century BC. The word organ is derived from the Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), a generic term for an instrument or a tool, via the Latin organum, an instrument similar to a portative organ used in ancient Roman circus games. The Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria is credited with inventing…
Organ in Münster Cathedral, Germany
Panpipes
Hydraulis
Portative