In the church of SS. Pietro and Paolo (XVIII century) of Colognole – whose name indicates the past of a Roman colony – is housed an organ built between the 16th and 17th centuries for the court celebrations of the Grand Ducal Palace of Livorno and only later converted for use liturgical. The exceptional nature of the work is due to the fact that the instrument – substantially intact – is perhaps the oldest surviving positive organ in Tuscany and still has the Baroque decorations added to the severe late Renaissance wooden structure. The antiquity of the instrument is immediately detected by the keyboard which in its last short octave ends at La4 without G # 4. The acute limit of the keyboards on La4 ceases to be practiced at least from the 30s of the seventeenth century and therefore constitutes an ante quem term for the dating of this instrument. [..] (Pier Paolo Donati – Renzo Giorgetti)
