Peter Williams makes an interdisciplinary study of how we have the organ - in particular how we have it in church, in this article from the RCO Journal of 2011.  In a review of five publications relating to early Christianity and music, he discusses the interaction between Mediterranean technology, church authority, church practice, and function and design in the first millenium and a half, and asks what sound the early organ might have made before the High Middle Ages.

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