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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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used by the symphonic orchestras, but is not used any more when playing folk songs. The strainer drum
is the accessory of the rituals of the ancient Hungarian shamans and wizzards; it is still used by our
Csángó brothers. The Moldavian Csángós still use the bull, the Jew’s harp, but the Csángós from
Barcaság forgot about it. The cymbal is a Hun, Avar and Hungarian instrument; it was mostly used in
the army. According to the findings of the historian Barabási László, the Csángós living outside the
Carpathian Basin, the ones living in Asia, Africa, North- and South-America have similarities in their
instruments and dressing as well.
The ancestors of the organ are the pan’s pipes of Athais and the hose-pipes. The 24 Hun Alliance was
familiar with the seng, this is a blowing instrument which still exists in China and the Far East. Their
essence is that the pipes have a common air chamber, in which the player blows the air, and by covering
the hole on the pipes it gives sound to the certain pipe, even many pipes at the same time, giving the
possibility to play polyphone songs. The oldest instrument, which can really be called an organ is the
water organ, the hydraulos. From the 4 th century the pneumatic system instead of the hydraulic pressure
equalizer is mostly used for the water organ. In the 9 th century people started using the organ for Church
music purposes, in the 10 th century the first closet shaped organs were built. The pedals were first used
in the 14 th century. With the perfection of the airbox, pipes and tract the organ became a real musical
instrument; it was the most appreciated in the Baroque. In this the collaboration between Johann
Sebastian Bach, the great organ player and Gottfried Silbermann (1683-1753), the best organ builder,
played a great role. The pneumatic tract became popular in the early 19 th century, the electric one at the
end of the century. These made possible the building of giant organs, which were needed by the
romantic era of music. The organ was the only instrument, which was not forbidden by the Church in
the Middle Ages, and it remained a characteristic instrument of it.
In Apáca the organ was built in 1886 by Saukenik János, in Krizba in 1853 by Mäywald Hendrich,
who was the student of the master who built the organ in the Black Church, in Barcaújfalu the organ was
built in 1752, but it was disassembled when the Romanians broke in 1916 and it was put back together
only in 1923. The organ of the Lutheran Church in Brasov was built by Schneider Péter senior in 1636,
which has the same age as the Bocholz organ in the Black Church. It is sad that this is forgotten by most
and that they only pay attention to the commercialization of the Black Church. One of the celebrities in
Bácsfalu in 1848 was Simon István, who escaped the Bach era by moving to Bucharest where he became
famous thanks to his inn, and his commercial spirit. During his old days he returned to Bácsfalu, where
he was the first who in 1898 installed the wood tubed water-conduit. Under the community center in
Bácsfalu, layed the old cemetery near the church. Simon István enlarged the cemetery, where he tried to
establish the line burial. For this he was honoured with Hungarian state awards. For his merits the Új
street was named after him, and we should claim it back. Bácsfalu’s organ which was built in 1814, was
replaced in 1893 and given to the new church in Hosszúfalu-Fűrészmező, and they took over the organ
from Csernátfalu, its coagulation was financed by the earlier mentioned Simon István’s cousin, Simon
István. The organ player was Simon Gyula. Its altar was given as a donation by the Saxon Church from
Szentpéter, and then in 1910 Borcsa Mihály donated a new altar picture. In Türkös the altar was built in
1910. In Csernátfalu the old organ was replaced in 1891 and donated to Bácsfalu. The new organ was
built by Dangl Antal. In Tatrang the organ was built in 1856 by Nagy József, in Zajzon, instead of the old
side-organ was built a new one in 1838. Pürkerec, thanks to the intervention of priest Fejér Gyula,
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