The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 266
entury produced forty-two to fifty tones or senii-tones : oue stringexpressed several notes, and this was eiïeeted by means of plates of métalwhich, ser^-ing• as a movable bridge to each string, either increased ordiminished the intensity of its vibration. The grand-pianos of the présentdaj… … Fig. i86.—Orgatiistrum. Ninth Century. tilS. de Saint-Biaise.) Italians ; thèse improvements soon had the efFect of throwing the psalterioninto 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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