The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 526
n the sixteentli century produced forty-two to fifty tones or semi-tones: one string expressed several notes, and thiswas effected by means oi plates of metal which, serving as a movable bridgeto each string, either increased oi* (linilnislu^d the intensity of its vibration.The grand-pianos of tin*… … li^^ 410.—Orsntnsfiiirn. Ninth Conturj. (MS. de Saint-Blaise.) key-board are due to the Italians; these improvements soon had the effect ofthrowing the psa/fenon into oblivion. In the ninth century a stringed instrument was in use the mechanism ofAvhich, although not very perfect, evidently tended…
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