After 800 years of silence, the oldest pipe organ in the Christian world sounds once more
- A pipe organ, considered the oldest in the Christian world, was played for the first time in 800 years in Jerusalem's Old City.
- Catalunya stated that attendees were witnessing a grand development in the history of music during the unveiling.
- After 700 years buried, it was moving to hear the organ pipes come to life again.
- A research team plans to finish restoring the organ and create copies to share its music worldwide.
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World’s Oldest Pipe Organ Heard Again After 800 Years of Silence in Jerusalem
Reconstructed ancient pipe organ. Credit: Jerzy Kociatkiewicz / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 For the first time in nearly 800 years, the sound of an 11th-century pipe organ echoed through the halls of Saint Saviour’s Monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City. A team of researchers activated several original pipes, making it the first known instance of the world’s oldest organ producing sound again, without modern restoration. The instrument is set t…
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The Crescent-NewsAfter 800 years of silence, oldest pipe organ in Christian world sounds again
After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The Spanish musicologist David Catalunya, researcher at the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences, managed to do on Tuesday what no one had achieved before him: to make sound in Jerusalem the oldest organ of Christendom after more than 800 years in silence.Continue reading...
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After 800 years of silence, the oldest pipe organ in the Christian world sounds once more
After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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