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The First Christians Didn't Sing with Instruments
Organ or band, piano or drums: every church has picked a side in the worship wars. For the first eight hundred years of Christianity, there were no sides, because there were no instruments. The church that sang in prison cells and before dawn under threat of death did it with voices alone, on purpose, even though its own Psalter commanded harps and cymbals. This episode traces the strangest sound decision in church history: why the harps stayed on the wall, how a Byzantine emperor’s diplomatic gift smuggled the organ into the West, why Aquinas still described instrument-free worship as the…
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