Is it likely that any instrument was initially designed to suit the person who invented/developed it, or to suit the person for whom it was first intended?

I can't even begin to comprehend how the firt church organs must have sounded, because they had very wide keys intended to be 'played' by striking them with a clecnched fist... and the 'performer' was referred to as the 'Pulsator Organum'... fairly self explanatory! A far cry from the modern day instrument which has many female exponents.