ABSTRACT
The use of the two Tudor organs made for the Early English Organ Project in the 2005 conference at Aberdeen University, the reconstruction of a third Tudor organ in a West Country style and of the organ part of the 1579 Theewes claviorganum prompt thoughts about the contribution of new organs based on historical remains to the re-discovery of the music associated with them. The new organs need to be as exact in copying the source material as possible, in these cases surviving fragments dating from the 1530s and 1540s, contemporary Spanish organs and the earliest surviving English organs from the 1630s and 1660s. The re-creation of historical musical instruments such as these provides an essential ingredient in the recovery of lost musical cultures.
