The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 256
re gold. Thenumber of these pipes was varied and multiplied to an infinite extent,according to the effects the instrument was required to produce. The MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 205 mechanism was, generally speaking, rather complicated, and the working ofthe bellows very laborious. In large organs the… … Fig. 171.—Organ with single Key-board of the Fourteenth Century.(Miniature from a Latin Psalter, No. 175, Bibl. Imp., Paris.) The organ, which, as we have seen, was at first of a portable nature,in some cases resumed its original dimensions (Fig. 172). It was thensometimes called simply portatif…
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