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A portative organ (from the Latin verb portare, "to carry"), also known during Italian Trecento as the organetto, is a small pipe organ that consists of one rank of flue pipes, sometimes arranged in two rows, to be played while strapped to the performer at a right angle.
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The most common action is the 'slider chest'. In a slider chest, each rank of pipes is arranged on the top of the chest, which contains wind. The pipes for each individual note sit together on their own 'key channel', a pathway carved out of the windchest that admits wind to all the pipes for that note.
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A well-known instance of an early positive or portable organ of the 4th century occurs on the obelisk erected to the memory of Theodosius I on his death in AD 395. Among the illuminated manuscripts of the British Museum there are many miniatures representing interesting varieties of the portable organ of the Middle Ages, including Add. MS. 29902 (fol. 6), Add. MS. 27695b (fol. 13), and Cotton ...
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