. Musical instruments . - the pneumaticorgan. The earliest organs had only about a dozen ]) largest, which were made aboul iiini lumdrcd years ago,had only three octaves, in which tlic chromatic intervals didnot occur. Some {progress in the construction of the organ isshewn in a ])salter of Eadwine, in the library of Trinity College,Cambridge (Fig. 33). The instrument has ten ]n])es, or per-haps fourteen, as four of them a])pear to be double pij^es. Fig. 33.—Organ. I-rom a 12th century psalter in ibc Library of Trinity Collt gc, Cambridge. 96 MUSIC A L i:VSTRUMENTS. It required four me
. Musical instruments . - the pneumaticorgan. The earliest organs had only about a dozen ]) largest, which were made aboul iiini lumdrcd years ago,had only three octaves, in which tlic chromatic intervals didnot occur. Some {progress in the construction of the organ isshewn in a ])salter of Eadwine, in the library of Trinity College,Cambridge (Fig. 33). The instrument has ten ]n])es, or per-haps fourteen, as four of them a])pear to be double pij^es. Fig. 33.—Organ. I-rom a 12th century psalter in ibc Library of Trinity Collt gc, Cambridge. 96 MUSIC A L i:VSTRUMENTS. It required four men exerting all their power to producethe necessary wind, and two men to play the , both players seem also to be busily engaged indirecting the blowers about the proper supply of men and only fourteen pipes! Another illustra-tion is given of anorgan of the 14thcentury (Fig. 34).The pedal isgenerally believedto have been in-vented by Bern-hard, a German,who lived in Veniceabout the year1470. There are,however, indica-tions extant point-ing to an earlier
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