It must not be supposed that the ‘organ
’ referred to in the Old Testament (Gen. iv. 21)—‘Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ
’—bore any resemblance to the stately instrument with which we are all so familiar by that name at the present day. At the same time, there can be little doubt that the principle of the three great classes of organ-pipe—Stopped, Open, and Reed—was known at a very...
