THE OLDEST ORGAN.
,y. In the Baltic Sea, forty miles from the mainland, lies the Swedish island Gothland, a Mecca. for students of early Gothic architecture. In Wisby alone, the chief town of the island, with its population of eight thousand souls, may be studied what remains of no less than ten churches, some of which date from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The oldest of them is the Church of the Holy Ghost, completed about 1046.. Professor Hennerberg', director in a German music school, and especially interested in the study of mediaeval organs, visited fiftynine churches in Gothland, and in a little village called Sundre came upon the remnant of what is unquestionably the oldest known oro’an in existence. The case alone has survived the fret of seven centuries; the holes for pedals and manuals are placed as in modern instruments, and inside one can see the chamber for the bellows and judge of their action ; the exterior is adorned with paintings dated from about 1*240.
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Waipukurau Press, Issue 292, 6 August 1908, Page 7
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167THE OLDEST ORGAN. Waipukurau Press, Issue 292, 6 August 1908, Page 7
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