Meet the Organetto, the Original Laptop
The small, almost-forgotten pipe organ called an Organetto is the star of this week’s Newberry Consort’s “Music Fit for the Medicis.” The organetto was typically played perpendicularly on a performer’s lap and was one of the most popular instruments in the 13th and the 14th centuries. None survive. What experts know today about the organetto comes from its depiction in hundreds of medieval paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and stained-glass windows.
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