Yes and no ... illuminated capitals, etc. tend to be fanciful ... like
the one of St. Cecelia playing a portativ that wouldn't have existed
until more than a thousand years after her martyrdom <g>.

OTOH, that DOES give something of a clue as to what organs might have
been like when the capital was illuminated, I suppose.

Organ class was long ago and far away, but I don't recall reading a lot
about Roman organs, aside from that (apocryphal?) story about
Frescobaldi playing a recital for 10,000 people in St. Peter's.

One would have thought that Rome would have been a center of
organ-building, but there seems to have been more going on in the north.

Cheers,

Bud Clark
San Diego CA USA

Dana Emery wrote:

> Liquescent <[log in to unmask]> said:
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> Perhaps a survey of contemporary book illustrations would be fruitful -
> organs with singers; lots of other instruments with singers, why not
> some organs too?
> --
> Dana Emery
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