A Description And History Of The Pianoforte And Of The Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments

Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : London ; New York : Novello, Ewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments written by Alfred James Hipkins and published by London ; New York : Novello, Ewer. This book was released on 1896 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred James Hipkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266205357
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred James Hipkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments There is no musical instrument so extensively used as the piano forte, and there is certainly none so little understood by the player, in the construction, or the legitimate treatment according to the construction. It would be more intimately known if the performer had to tune it, but the difficulty Of tuning renders the employment of a specialist in that art necessary. Few piano players know more about a piano than that the sounds are caused by hammers striking against wire strings. There has, however, arisen in our leading music schools a desire to know more, and students are not now satisfied to remain unacquainted with the nature of their instru ment. TO assist those who are curious about its construction is one of the Obj ects for which this book is written. I have chosen to start from the introduction of iron in the construction of the pianoforte, about 1820, as convenient for my purpose, regarding the entirely wooden framed piano as appertaining to an historical division, in which the precursors Of the piano, the clavichord, virginal or spinet, and harpsichord will be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alfred James Hipkins
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Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments written by Alfred James Hipkins and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred J 1826-1903 Hipkins
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015738041
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Author : A. J. Hipkins
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Download or read book Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments written by A. J. Hipkins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230733234
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments written by Alfred James Hipkins and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... of four-foot pitch. There are twenty-five pedals. The maker's inscription is "Johann David Gerstenberg, Orgelbauer zu Geringswald, hat uns gemacht, 1760." Ultimately the double stopping became the normal, and the open notes produced by the farthest tangents backwards were F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E flat, the seventh Gregorian tone transposed, and a possible heritage from the old transposition scales (the Heptas) of the Greeks. t In this arrangement the D and A were free, or single tangent notes, without other stopping on those strings, the other strings having a double stopping in order to obtain the notes required to complete the chromatic scale. To do this F sharp was fretted upon F, shortening the strings by so much as is required to make the semitone; G sharp upon G, B natural upon B flat, C sharp upon C, and E natural upon E flat. The choice of the scale notes so as to Lave A and D free depended upon the tuning, thus: the tuner would take four fifths up, F--C, C--G, Q--D, D--A (tuning down the G an octave to bring the notes conveniently near), and two fifths down or fourths up, F--B flat--E flat; thus securing the seven notes in a diatonic system without the leading semitone. Then the scale was made chromatic by stopping or fretting with additional tangents as already described. The tuner might have taken six upward fifths so as to get E and B natural open, and this was, it is said, in the eighteenth century done; J but a groundwork with this intention was not thought of when the Church Modes prevailed. The A and D were prominent notes in the first and second modes, and the B flat and E flat had more importance, especially the B flat, as notes of transposition than the corresponding natural notes. Other scalings in the old...

Author : Edwin M. Ripin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393305159
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Early Keyboard Instruments written by Edwin M. Ripin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much-acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Each book is a comprehensive guide to all facets of an instrument: its history, construction, repertory, playing techniques, and makers, written by leading authorities.

Author : Stewart Pollens
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ISBN 13 : 1108421997
Total Pages : 595 pages
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Download or read book A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments written by Stewart Pollens and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.

Author : Robert Palmieri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135949646
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book The Piano written by Robert Palmieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.