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pressure that was generated by simple hand-operated pumps and controlled by the weight of water,.above a chamber containing air under pressure – –.to place several existing wind instruments (perhaps the aulos) of different sizes.He must have wanted to accomplish more, however, than simply bundling end-blown flutes together. He could have even had some knowledge of the so-called mouth organ, which is sometimes cited as a precursor to the development of the organ. These instruments were known in the ancient world, to both Greek and Hebrew cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. 78 Surviving accounts indicate that he did not think he was inventing a new instrument, but was solving a problem in mechanics or engineering: How can one person play more than one wind instrument at a time? Certainly he had some models at hand that permitted something similar: the syrinx or pan-pipes. Historians generally recognize that the first instrument that has all these components was the hydraulis, and that it was the invention of Ktesibios (or Ctesibius, to use the Latinized form of his name), a Greek engineer working in Alexandria in the third century BC.

and access of wind to pipes controlled by a keyboard.

under pressure that has been mechanically generated,.

are placed on a chamber that stores wind.

The instrument itself is a composite machine, and to be considered an “organ” it must have four basic components: 77 The pipe organ presents a different picture, however. Variations in detail from one culture’s flute to another’s certainly exist, but the principle by which they produce sounds for musical purposes is the same in all of them, and the first use of that principle was so long ago that we can never pinpoint it in history. Developments after that time led to the different forms of the flute that exist throughout the many musical cultures of the world. No one knows how most musical instruments were “invented.” The name of the first person to blow across a hollow tube is lost forever, but we understand that someone must have done it first.

What were the first musical instruments?.

Just how old is music as a human endeavor?.

Why did music develop with seeming independence in virtually every culture on the planet?.

Music is such an all-pervasive characteristic of human culture that it seems inevitable that most of us eventually come around to wondering about its origins:

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