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A pipe organ with "great leaden pipes" was sent to the West by the Byzantine emperor Constantine V as a gift to Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, in 757. Pepin's son Charlemagne requested a similar organ for his chapel in Aachen in 812, beginning the pipe organ's establishment in Western European church music.
- 3rd century BC
- Keyboard instrument (Aerophone)
- Organ, Church organ (used only for Pipe organs in houses of worship)
The mechanical realizations of the four basic requirements are certainly different, reflecting developments in both society and technology in the last 2200 years. But all pipe organs have their origin in this relatively simple instrument that was invented first as a solution to an engineering problem.
28. Mai 2018 · The first pipe organs were conceived and built in Greece around 200 BC. There is no evidence of any kind to suggest that pipe organs were in existence before the Hellenistic period, or to have originated anywhere outside of Hellenistic influence. Later Greek authors claim that the organ was invented by one man, Ctesibius
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.
Pipes may vary from 32 feet (10 metres) long to less than 1 inch (2.5 cm), giving the organ a possible range of nine octaves—larger than any other instrument. The earliest known organ was the hydraulis of the 3rd century bce, a rudimentary Greek invention, with the wind regulated by water pressure. The first recorded appearance of an ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
To find the origins of the pipe organ, we must travel back through time to ancient Greece. The earliest pipe organs are thought to have been water organs, or hydrauli, developed at that time in northern Africa.
The long story of the organ's development rightly begins with an ancient Alexandrian man by the name of Ctesibius. Employed as a barber's apprentice, Ctesibius became very familiar with large 1 C. A. Edwards, Organs and Organ-building: A Treatise on the History and Construction of the Organ, from its Origin to
