The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 262
^ tones or semi-tones : one stringexpressed several notes, and this was effected by means of plates of metalwhich, serving as a movable bridge to each string, either increased ordiminished the intensity of its vibration. The grand-pianos of the presentday unquestionably have their key-boards placed… … Fig. i85.—O reams hum. Ninth Century. (MS. de Saint-Blaise.) Italians ; these improvements soon had the effect of throwing the inalierioninto oblivion. In the ninth century a stringed instrument was in use the mechanismof which, although not very perfect, evidently tended to an imitation ofthe…
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