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ixed in position, and, when carried in a procession, it and its stand were placed on a car. An organ of this kind was afterward placed before the great organ in churches, the two constituting a single instrument, the positive being the origin of what has since been designated the choir organ. Old-time organs. The organ is said to have been applied to religious services in churches in 657, and first used in the Western churches in 658 by Pope Vitalianus; though they were, according to Julianus, a Spanish bishop, commonly used in Spain 200 years previous to this date. In 757, the Emperor Constantine IV. presented an organ to King Pepin of France; and one, the work of a Saracen artist, was presented to his son Charlemagne by Haroun al Raschid; and, in 812, Louis le Debonnair built one on the Greek model at Aquisgrana, the modern Aix-la-Chapelle. Several German organs were placed in Italian churches by John VIII., 872-882. About 951, the abbey of Malmesbury and the cathedr