Multiple MatchingExercise 70 of 70

The pipe organ, an instrument of unparalleled timbral and dynamic range whose largest exemplars encompass tens of thousands of individually voiced pipes spanning a compass exceeding that of any other acoustic instrument, has maintained its pre-eminence in Western sacred music for over a millennium, its sustained…

• Which instrument was born directly from the creative resourcefulness of a community deliberately deprived of access to conventional musical equipment by a ruling authority?
• Which instrument requires the performer to navigate pitch with absolute precision in the complete absence of any physical point of tactile reference?