Pipe organ, Salamanca, Spain - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

This fountain and sculpture was inaugurated on September 13, 1993 as a tribute to one of the leading musicians of the sixteenth century, Francisco de Salinas.

Salinas was blind from the age of ten. Nevertheless he played the organ and described the meantone temperament in mathematically precise terms. He became professor of music at the University of Salamanca. He also composed music for organ, but they are all lost. You can read more on him in wikipedia: (visit link) or in Spanish: (visit link)

The sculpture weighs 300 kilos and is made of bronze, measures 1.60 meters and rests on a pedestal with trapezoid ground. Twenty tubes surround the sculpture. They represent the tubes of a pipe organ. The water of this fountain comes out at the top of the tubes (the pipe organ).

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