October 29, 1993 • Page Image 54
…More Myth I I . The service in Solomon t Temple was accompanied by an organ. Jewish Scripture says that the Temple service was indeed accompanied by music. The Levites played a variety of string, wind and percussion instruments. But the organ was not among them. The modern pipe organ is a descendant of the hydraulis in- vented by Ctesibios of Alexandria around 250 BCE. This crude instrument was developed by the later Greeks, Romans and Byzan...…

















































