ittle “jacks” form appears about the ninth century, attached, will be noticed under the railboard, which keeps them strange as it may seem, to an instrument played with from jumping out of the instrument at the touch of the bow or its substitute. Old medieval manuscripts too vigorous a player. In… … and acted on different or additional sets sion of the key tangent and without Fig. 4.—Virginal and Case (XVI. Century). turning the vibrating wheel. We can of strings. Upright harpsichords were not but suppose that this effect was ob- also constructed, as in the highly orna- served by the early…
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