Water Organs in Book "The Organ of the Ancients"
By Fritz Gellerman
The first mechanically played musical instrument on record was a water
organ made by the Musa brothers (banu Musa) in the ninth century AD.
The music was recorded on a cylinder much like those used in more
recent times for cylinder music boxes and barrel organs.
More details on this and other ancient instruments can be found in
Henry George Farmer, "The Organ of the Ancients", 1931.
Fritz Gellerman
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