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The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 257

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g wittone of the twenty-four keys of eacli key-board (Fig. 170). In tbe ninh centiuy, the German organ-makers acquired great renown.The monk Gerbert, wbo, as we bave already remarked, became pope underthe name of Sylvester II., and co-operated so efi&ciently in the progress ofthe horological… … Fiff. I70.-Great Organ, with Bellows and double Key-board, of the Twelfth Century. ( JIS. at Cambridge.) considérable détails concerning the arrangement and -svorking of this instru-ment. Nevertheless, the admission of the organ into churches did not failto meet with earnest opponents araong the…

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