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It wasn't really "invented" it was developed. People are always trying to improve Musical Instruments. In antiquity, people sought ways to improve on the syrinx or pan pipes which were blown by mouth.

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Until the mid to late 19th century the pipe organ was the only musical instrument to bear the name "organ." At this time the reed organ or harmonium was developed and quickly became very popular. Thus a term was needed to differentiate between the two.

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The pipe organ was not invented. It was a development that goes back to ancient times. Credit is sometimes given to Ctesibius, a Greek engineer of the third century BCE. However, his contribution was a hydraulic wind regulation system to an existing instrument. It is likely that small pipe organs were being built centuries before that time.

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Most likely the Middle East or Mediterranean. Ctesibius of Alexandria devised a system of wind pressure regulation using water in the second century BCE but primitive forms of the organ pre-date this by at least a century.

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Its is impossible to say as the organ was developed rather invented. Ctesibius or Ktesibios, an engineer in second century BC Alexandria, invented a hydraulic wind stabilizing mechanism for the pipe organ of that time. There is evidence that primitive pipe organs were being built at a considerably earlier date.

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It dates back to prehistoric times. The syrinx or "pan pipe" was simply blown by mouth. Someone, whose name is lost in the mists of history, decided to experiment by blowing these pipes by mechanical means. Ctesibius (285 -222 BCE) is given credit for inventing a type of organ called the hydralis but the pipe organ greatly pre-dates this invention.

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Certainly sometime prior to 300 BCE. It is possible that primitive organs were constructed in Egypt or Mesopotamia well before this period and the development of the Hydraulus.

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Early organs were developed in the Southern Mediterranean area, possibly Egypt, sometime prior to 300 BC.

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