After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world roared back to life on Tuesday, its ancient sound echoing through a monastery.
After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world roared back to life on Tuesday, its ancient sound echoing through a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City. Composed of original pipes from the 11th century, the AP reports that the instrument emitted a full, hearty sound as musician David Catalunya played a liturgical chant called „Benedicamus Domino Flos Filius.“ The swell of music inside Saint Saviour’s Monastery mingled with church bells tolling in the distance. Catalunya said that attendees were witnessing a grand development in the history of music. „This organ was buried with the hope that one day it would play again“, he said.
