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Positive Organ

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Positive Organ 

a medieval wind musical instrument with a keyboard; a small chamber organ.



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The virginals, used in some places instead of a positive organ, rather change the character of the pieces, and so fulfils the aim of presenting the variety and colour possibilities of the Baroque basso.
The brain was the most sensitive target organ; it was the only positive organ for three of the positive crows.
But they are pleasing ecclesiastical pieces, Gothic devotional polyphony of the 15th century to be more precise, and they are pleasingly performed by the five-member Rene Clemencic Consort, consisting of positive organ, counter tenor, two regular tenors, and a Renaissance trombone.
 
 
 
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