THE ORGAN When hairy Pan joined reeds of different lengths and so invented the flute which bears his name, he was, in reality, creating the organ.

It needed only to add to this flute a keyboard and bellows to make one of those pretty instruments the first painters used to put in the hands of angels.

As it developed and gradually became the most grandiose of the instruments, the organ, with its depth of tone modified and increased tenfold by the resonance of the great cathedrals, took on its religious character.
The organ is more than a single instrument.

It is an orchestra, a collection of the pipes of Pan of every size, from those as small as a child's playthings to those as gigantic as the columns of a temple.

Each one corresponds to what is termed an organ-stop.