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A 17 page paper which examines the history, building, and builders of the English church organ, making special reference to the smaller English parish organs rather than exclusively referring to the larger cathedral organs of the time period. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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File: TG15_TGengorgan.rtf
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man. In the natural order of things the discovery would quickly follow that reeds or whistles of different dimensions yielded musical sounds of different pitches. The imaginative mind
can easily follow the slow application of this discovery, until the Syrinx, or so called Pipe of Pan, formed a number of hollow reeds of different lengths, stopped at one
end, and bound together, and yielding, when blown across their open ends, a more or less regular series of musical sounds, became the first mouth organ, and the germ from
which the modern Organ has grown, through a thousand progressive stages, to its present lofty position as King of Instruments, and one of the greatest achievements of human ingenuity and
skill" (Audsley 1-2). Throughout the cultural history of the world, it seems, there has been the Organ. Ever since Ctesibius from Alexandria invented a water instrument powered by
wind known as a hydraulis around the third century B.C., the organ has grown in musical complexity and building design. During the ensuing centuries, organs made steady progress in
terms of both construction and influence, and were soon featured throughout much of Europe, most notably in Germany and England. Prior to the nineteenth century, the pipe organ was
predominant, but it soon found a formidable rival in the reed organs that were being constructed beginning around this time. Although for the first years of the century, they
"were very little different from their predecessors of the late eighteenth century," in what has become collectively known as the Victorian Age, England soon took the lead in organ building
and gave the instrument an added dimension that would forever change its use and perception (Cook, 2000). Although church organs were nothing new, they were typically reserved for large
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