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Silent For 800 Years, Medieval Organ Sings Again In Jerusalem

A man inspects a piece of the functioning replica from the oldest organ in Christendom, during the instrument's unveiling at the Saint Saviour's Monastery in the old city of Jerusalem (Credit: AFP)

The pipes of a medieval organ, buried for centuries and discovered near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, are once more filling a Jerusalem monastery with ancient melodies.

"This is a window into the past... we have the opportunity for the first time in modern history of listening to a medieval sound which is a thousand years old," said David Catalunya, a Spanish researcher who has worked for more than five years to bring the 11th-century instrument back to life.

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