{"id":6230,"date":"2018-10-18T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtuur.com\/?page_id=6230"},"modified":"2018-10-18T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:05:12","slug":"who-invented-the-pipe-organ","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtuur.com\/en\/who-invented-the-pipe-organ\/","title":{"rendered":"Who invented the pipe organ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who invented the pipe organ?<\/h1>\n

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An early type of the pipe organ is invented by the Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria in the third century before the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n

Ctesibius devised a hydraulis. A hydraulis is an instrument which delivered a wind supply maintained through water pressure to a set of pipes. The air is pushed into the reservoir with hand pumps. The reservoir is open on the bottom, so that water can mantain the pressure on the air as the air supply fluctuates. The hydraulis was played in the arenas of the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n

Hydraulis means ‘water driven pipe instrument’. It was played by hand (not automatically by a natural waterflow, like a waterfall). <\/p>\n

This is how a hydraulis sounds:
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