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| | A Short History of Piano keys, Harpsichord Keys, Keyboard Compass |
 | | Octave spans and compasses of various keyboard instruments, most of which are from | | | In 1837 Obendrauf of Vienna made a pianoforte with a keyboard designed so that children could play intervals and chords with ease, but it is not known what the octave span was on his piano. | | | By the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, keyboards consisted of what we would call the naturals, or white note keys, with the church modes as the basis for the musical system. |
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http://www.uk-piano.org/history/compass.html
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| | PIANOFORTE - LoveToKnow Article on PIANOFORTE |
| | The left hand controlled a kind of violin bow, which produced a charming sostinente, in character of ton between the violin tone and that of musical glasses. | | | The introduction of the chromatic order he attributes to the study of Boetius, and the consequent endeavour to restore the three musical genera of the Greeksthe diatonic, chron~atic and enharmonic. | | | Such divided sharps have been assumed to be quarter tones, but ertharmonic intervals in the extreme bass can have no justification. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PI/PIANOFORTE.htm
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| | Differences in Mandolin Family Instruments |
| | Tenor guitars were invented to give the old tenor banjo player new life (guitar sound) without having to learn guitar tuning. | | | The range is from about mandolin size to a bit longer than guitar size (roughly equal to an acoustic bass)... | | | for a tuning of [GDAEA] (the short scale cittern), you would need to have [EbBbFCF] at the nut of the guitar, and a capo at the 4th fret. |
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http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/howtotell.html
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| | Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments |
| | The top octave from c² to c³ has no split accidentals as would be expected since the accidentals here are normally used melodically and not harmonically. | | | It would be necessary to postulate a number of split accidentals including all but one of the accidentals between f² and c³ in a part of the compass where split accidentals are normally not found in other extant instruments. | | | In order to analyse the scalings of the harpsichord, use was made of the diagram of the baseboard of the instrument shown here in Figure 1. |
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http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell/instruments/ht1sb16274/ht1sb16274paper1.html
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| | Clavichord Technique and Performance Practice: An Annotated Bibliography |
| | This is a short description of the acoustical reasons (as opposed to the mechanical) for double-stringing clavichords. | | | Nevertheless, the conclusions drawn from this experiment and the recordings provided of the instrument and some representative literature (recording and notation), do provide some valuable information for the historical recreator. | | | A selective list of modern editions of the music is provided. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3624/clavichd.htm
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| | Search Results for octave - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In music, primary pitches of a key or mode arranged within an octave. | | | in early Greek music theory, any of the various arrangements of tones (T) and semitones (S) within an octave (series of eight consecutive notes) in the scale system. | | | Principal tenor and bass instrument of the orchestral woodwind family. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=octave&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | Extended Bibliography: Octave Chanute |
| | Bungee Cord, Crouch, Tom D. "The Origins of a Classic: Octave Chanute, Augustus Moore Herring and their "two-surface" glider of 1896-1897." Spring 1981. | | | Crouch, Dr. Tom "Octave Chanute and the Indiana Glider Trials of 1896." | | | St.Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday, Oct 10, 1909 "Octave Chanute discusses aviation in 2009. |
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http://spicerweb.org/chanute/biblio2.html
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| | GNU Octave |
| | They all operate on string arrays and return matrices of zeros and ones. | | | They return -1 when the operation doesn't make sense. | | | Octave has a convenient operator notation for performing matrix arithmetic. |
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http://www.fi.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/nyoctave.html
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| | HCH / The Complete List |
| | Case is made in light oak (gothic look). | | | A new instrument with excellent sound and action. | | | This instrument was used in recitals and recordings by Ralph Kirkpatrick in the early 1940's. |
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http://www.harpsichord.com/List/list_main.html
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| | Short octave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Here, the practice would not have yielded poor tone quality (since the associated pipes would have to be built with the correct length in any event); nevertheless, because of the loss of musical flexibility they entailed, short octaves ultimately came to be abandoned in organs as well. | | | Here, the "exotic" bass notes C# and D# are sacrificed to obtain the more essential G and A. In stringed instruments like the harpsichord, the short octave system created a defect: the strings which were tuned to mismatch their keyboard notes were in general too short to sound the reassigned note with good tone quality. | | | Short octaves were also sometimes used in the organ. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_octave
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| | Jack Peters Harpsichords - Pinnock article part 1 |
| | The scaling (the speaking length of the strings) of Italian instruments is shorter than Flemish harpsichords. | | | They also exhibit thin walnut cases, short scalings, and a compass of FF-d’’’ or GG-g’’’. | | | In the latter part of the 17th century the keyboards had a broken octave. |
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http://www.jackpeters.com/pinnock1.htm
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| | Dolmetsch Online - Split Keys on Early Keyboard Instruments |
| | Broadwood is reported to have built a piano in 1766 which had all upper keys split. | | | "Italian Split-keyed Instruments with Fewer than Nineteen divisions to the Octave." Performance Practice Review 7 (1994): 150-181. | | | in chapter "A Very Short History") the front part of the *lower upper key (eb) might be ca. |
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http://www.dolmetsch.com/faqtuning.htm
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| | Italian Short-Octive Harpsichord by ZHI |
| | The sound has a strong attack, ideal for the performance of Italian music and especially for accompaniment. | | | 49+2 notes: CDEF-d''', short octave with broken sharps |
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http://zhi.net/instr/IS49ZHI.shtml
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| | gnu octave |
| | The name has nothing to do with music. | | | Octave is a free computer program for performing numerical computations, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. | | | Because Octave is made available under the GNU General Public License, it can be freely copied and used. |
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http://www.fact-library.com/gnu_octave.html
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| | - SHOP.COM |
| | A new model, Italian-made octave mandolin, spruce top, with a padouk back and sides; full tone, bright with full bottom end, plays well; ideal for Celtic music. | | | All other designated trademarks, copyrights and brands are the property of their respective owners. | | | Octave Mandolin Short Solid Spruce Top Padouk Body |
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http://www.shop.com/op/aprod-p27485237
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| | KEYBOARD - LoveToKnow Article on KEYBOARD |
| | a diatonic with B flat included, but grouped in the space of a sixth instead of appearing as a full octave. | | | G C D E F G. ThIs was the most common scheme for the short octave during the 16th and 27th centuries, although others are occasionally found. | | | Until the 14th century all the keys were in one row and of the same level, and although the B flat was used for modulation, it was merely placed between A and B natural in the sequence of notes. |
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http://51.1911encyclopedia.org/K/KE/KEYBOARD.htm
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| | Virtual Tour of the Treasure Room |
| | Probably made in Austria about 1830, it was imported and sold in Philadelphia by Sarah Hart and Son, proprietors of a furniture and `fancy' store. | | | Clavichords sound very quiet and were often used for practicing and for private entertainment at home; this one, which retains two rare old spools of wire, was restored in 1989. | | | This charming rosewood sewing box and dressing case, cleaned and repaired in 1989, incorporates a high-pitched piano with four octaves of tiny keys. |
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http://musiclibrary.vassar.edu/TRvirtual.html
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| | Urkujen kuvaus |
| | It is easy for the organist to articulate and decorate the music. | | | The naturals have a bone covering, while the sharps have an ebony covering. | | | Still in working order today, the positive remains in its original guise except that its short octave was converted into chromatic by Anders Thulé in connection with repairs in 1843. |
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| | COMANDO Archives -- October 2002, week 3 (#155) |
| | Bob; I just got a note from Ron Cole telling me, among other things, that he sold the redwood mando"for a song". | | | Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:00:57 -0700 Reply-To: zeke griffin <[log in to unmask]> Sender: coMANDO - Mandolin Playing and Enjoyment <[log in to unmask]> From: zeke griffin <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Topwoods, was Short Scale Octave Comments: cc: [log in to unmask] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" | | | BTW, just got my copy of MM in the mail, but havn't had a chance to read it yet. |
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http://listserv.nodak.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0210c&L=comando&F=&S=&P=15842
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| | Help for Octave Matrix Numeric Tools |
| | Octave Official HomePage of John Eaton: (Click Here). | | | Also, if you are seeking Octave Recording Hardware you are at the WRONG LINK, see Octave Systems Inc. } | | | Octave Version 1.0, 3 PostScript Landscape pages, 1994. |
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http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/mcs471octave.html
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| | GuruNet — Content Map |
| | Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics | | | Short Track Speed Skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics |
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http://www.gurunet.com/cm-dsid-2222-letter-1S-first-20351
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| | Short octave |
| | In a short octave, certain tones of the scale that are rarely used are eliminated, and the tones remain are arranged thus: | | | On an early keyboard instrument, especially an organ, harpsichord, virginal, spinet, or clavichord, a short octave is an arrangement of keys in the lowest octave to enable the performer to play lower notes than the size of the instrument would normally allow. |
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http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/texts/Shortoctave.html
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| | Octave will try to print numbers with at least 5 significant figures within a field that is a maximum of 10 characters wide. | | | This tells Octave to return the string entered by the user directly, without evaluating it first. | | | This is not an error because Octave does not need to resolve all symbols that are referenced by a function until the function is actually evaluated. |
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http://www.physics.ucla.edu/picl/info/gnu/octave/octave.info-5
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| | This expression used to work on Octave Version 1.0. | | | Or, do you have an Octave version of bench.m? | | | Octave did not like, but in the end it did not appear |
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http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/mboxes/bug-octave.1997
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| | 17th and 18th Century Italy |
| | The first octave of the Principale is not visible. | | | The seventeenth-century instrument in the photograph to the right is in many ways typical of the small instruments built in Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. | | | As you can see in the photograph to the right, they are made as short levers pivoted at their outermost point and placed at a rising angle as they extend toward the case. |
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http://www.concertartist.info/organhistory/history/hist016.htm
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| | Inside the Brotherhood ( Martin Short , Octave Mirbeau) |
| | Short presents facts as facts and opinions as opinions, and writes about the good with the bad. | | | This book delves deep into it, reveals it for the satanistic and evil warping force it really is, yet still manages to maintain a sense of perspective. |
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http://software.justwilliams.com/uk/product/0870529447.htm
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| | GCDEFG - Online Information article about GCDEFG |
| | octave during the 16th and 17th centuries, although others are occasionally found. | | | Praetorius also gives examples in which the See also: | | | black notes of the short octave were divided into two halves, or See also: |
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| | Amazon.com: Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums: Books: Edward L. Kottick,George Lucktenberg |
| | SIPs: broken short octave, soundboard painting, clavichord building, triangular octave spinet, lid painting (more) | | | broken short octave, soundboard painting, clavichord building, triangular octave spinet, lid painting, child muselar, interior case walls, upright console piano, lyre piano, partial soundboard, polychrome chinoiserie, lying harp, extant harpsichord, inverted wrestplank, mitered tail, bentside spinets, polygonal virginals, octave virginal, plucked keyboards, harpsichord building, pyramid piano, painted soundboard, deeply curved bentside, inset keyboards, straight stringing | | | We are grateful to many people for their help in bringing this book to fruition. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0253332397?v=glance
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| | Octave don't meet Palm user's musts |
| | I cannot bare to be interrupted by lacking words, and when I think of an existing word which is not in a general purpose glossary, I refuse not being allowed to input it fluently (i.e.: in the same mode as preceding words). | | | Octave might have rated high on my wants (speed, learning..), but it does not meet my user's must. | | | And speed is not as essential as user full control on his system. |
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http://www.fitaly.com/board/domperignon/posts/152.html
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| | To: help-octave cc: jbraw, swinnea Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 01:09:37 -0500 [This was also posted to comp.soft-sys.matlab, but I'm also posting here since some people on this list may not read that newsgroup. | | | It seems to work, but I have not done extensive testing. | | | John W. Eaton procedure were written in FORTRAN. |
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| | Rideau Music - Bonaventura |
| | Written Especially For Brass Soloist Going To Contest For The First Time, This Piece In Bb Concert Features Simple Rhythms And A Melody Which Stays Entirely Within One Octave. | | | Short Rests Throughout Give Young Players A Chance To Rest Their Chops. |
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http://www.rideaumusic.com/product-214169
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| | ipedia.com: Harpsichord Article |
| | The Flemish instrument received further development in 18th-century France, notably with the work of the Blanchet family and their successor Pascal Taskin. | | | Some German harpsichords included a choir of two-foot strings (that is, strings pitched two octaves above the primary set). | | | In addition, two-manual French instruments used their manuals to vary the combination of stops being used (i.e., strings being plucked), rather than for transposition. |
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| | octave key |
| | The analogous key on the clarinet, the register key raises the pitch by an interval of a twelfth (19 semitones), making the fingerings different for low notes and high notes, which are an octave apart. | | | The presence of this key is one of the main features which makes the saxophone easier to play than the clarinet, because the same fingerings can be used for two different octaves. | | | The octave key is a key on a saxophone which raises the pitch of all notes by an octave when pressed. |
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| | Couchet |
| | The keyboard range has been extended with the addition of the low F# and G# as split keys to the short octave; essential for playing much Elizabethan music. | | | Range: C/E-c³, short octave, with F# and G#; 6-5/8" (167 mm) octave span |
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| | Historic Organs of Oaxaca |
| | The lack of pedals and the narrow range of Oaxacan organs, with their “short octave” keyboards, limits the available repertory of European masterworks, while the horizontal reeds and the provision of divided keyboard (medio registro) make these instruments ideal for a large amount of 17th- and 18th-century Iberian organ music specifically written for this arrangement. | | | We listened to a brief address by Fritz Noack, president of the International Society of Organbuilders (ISO), in which he endorsed the work of the IOHIO, especially their resolve to avoid the hasty and uninformed “restorations” that have destroyed valuable evidence in Europe and elsewhere. | | | The organ is divided between middle C and C-sharp: stops are drawn separately above and below this dividing point. |
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http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/music/oaxaca
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| | The Antegnati organ - church of San Nicola - Almenno San Salvatore |
| | La keyboard, is of extraordinary value because it is the only specimen known to have been made by the Antegnatis. | | | Due to the addition of the two new stops, the original nine knobs were put aside and substituted by eleven new levers, that were provided with the correspondent stop keyboard, directly applied over the previous one. | | | The white keys are covered with box-wood, are in one piece with a double horizontal lining, and are characterized by peculiar key fronts. |
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| | octave.info: Short-circuit Boolean Operators |
| | Created Sun Oct 26 02:44:53 2003 on rk4 with info_to_html version 0.9. | | | would result in an error if `f' were called with one or two arguments because Octave would be forced to try to evaluate both of the operands for the operator `and'. | | | Combined with the implicit conversion to scalar values in `if' and `while' conditions, Octave's element-by-element boolean operators are often sufficient for performing most logical operations. |
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http://www.raimokoski.com/docs/HTML/info2html/octave/octave.info.Short_circuit_Boolean_Operators.html
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| | [CAUT] Steinway replacement keyset-Ken Sloane response |
| | The reason for this is that when a student or =20 faculty member has to perform, virtually all the pianos that they might =20= encounter will have the "wide" octave. | | | So, might as well get used to it =20= before it becomes yet another hurdle to overcome when performing.=A0=A0=A0= =A0 =20 Ken Sloane. | | | ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment David, Here's a response from Ken regarding your "wide/short" octave question. |
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http://www.ptg.org/pipermail/caut/2005-March/014310.html
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| | Claviers Baroques Toronto Ontario Canada Information about rental of harpsichord "Mark I" |
| | Mark I is the authentic type of instrument for performances of the earlier Italian repertoire, of course, but is also lovely with later stuff. | | | The short octave bass may take a little getting used to, but the trade-off is a very versatile instrument in the smallest possible package. | | | Mark I's short octave bass may take a little getting used to, but the trade-off is a very versatile instrument in the smallest possible package. |
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http://www.claviersbaroques.com/CBInstrumentsRentalMarkI.htm
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| | Music Department: Collections |
| | Although the case is rococo in style, the sound of the organ has a Renaissance flavor. | | | In a short octave, the low keys C, C#, D and D# are missing. | | | The remainder of the low-octave pitches are played on their normal keys and Bb is the chromatic in that octave. |
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http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/music/collections.html
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| | COMANDO Archives -- October 2002, week 3 (#70) |
| | This last June at the CBA fest in Grass Valley, CA, I had the opportunity to play a redwood topped, walnut bands F5 model built by Ron Cole. | | | Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:31:44 -0700 Reply-To: zeke griffin <[log in to unmask]> Sender: coMANDO - Mandolin Playing and Enjoyment <[log in to unmask]> From: zeke griffin <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Topwoods, was Short Scale Octave Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" |
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http://listserv.nodak.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0210c&L=comando&F=&S=&P=6982
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| | Clavichords with short-and-broken octave |
| | This instrument has the full, developed form of the 'Viennese' short octave, which can be regarded as an extension of the ordinary C/E short-and- broken octave. | | | This list is unbdoubtedly incomplete: please send any additions and corrections to peterbav@nildram.co.uk. | | | For more detail see sale catalogue or Richard Maunder: Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-Century Vienna, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998, p. |
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| | Other Games Too.com Clef Hanger Tavern Puzzle |
| | Orders ship either same day or next business day directly from our store! | | | Twonotes short an octave, this clef is bound to be treble. |
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