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... tone , and the modern cupped mouthpiece , with its choked throat , has changed the tone still more . Consequently the instrument has lost much of the romantic and cheerful quality which was regarded by the eighteenth century as its ...
... tone , and the modern cupped mouthpiece , with its choked throat , has changed the tone still more . Consequently the instrument has lost much of the romantic and cheerful quality which was regarded by the eighteenth century as its ...
Page 37
... tone is brighter , thinner , more delicate and more resonant than it is on a modern piano . The gradation of tone from treble to bass is different , partly because the places at which the hammers strike the strings do not correspond to ...
... tone is brighter , thinner , more delicate and more resonant than it is on a modern piano . The gradation of tone from treble to bass is different , partly because the places at which the hammers strike the strings do not correspond to ...
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... tone temperament ; indeed most English organs continued to use it until the middle of the last century , and the old stops on the choir manual of the organ at Trinity College , Cambridge , remained tuned to mean - tone until about ...
... tone temperament ; indeed most English organs continued to use it until the middle of the last century , and the old stops on the choir manual of the organ at Trinity College , Cambridge , remained tuned to mean - tone until about ...
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