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Nobody knows. It started in about 900AD in monasteries (because the monks were the only people technical enough to maintain and play one) and became part of chu
by solresol 3y ago
Nobody knows. It started in about 900AD in monasteries (because the monks were the only people technical enough to maintain and play one) and became part of church tradition a few centuries later.
And after a millenium of use, in the late 1980s to early 1990s almost all churches stopped using them.
- OJFord 3y ago> And after a millenium of use, in the late 1980s to early 1990s almost all churches stopped using them. That surely needs a regional or religious tradition/denominational qualifier?