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Author : Malcolm Rose
Release : 1991
Genre : Keyboard instruments
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Book Synopsis A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments by : Malcolm Rose
Download or read book A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments written by Malcolm Rose. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Rose
Release : 1991
Genre : Keyboard instruments
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments by : Malcolm Rose
Download or read book A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments written by Malcolm Rose. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stewart Pollens
Release : 2022-04-21
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments by : Stewart Pollens
Download or read book A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments written by Stewart Pollens. This book was released on 2022-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.
Author : Thomas Donahue
Release : 2015-06-11
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 457/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook by : Thomas Donahue
Download or read book The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook written by Thomas Donahue. This book was released on 2015-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harpsichord was the standard keyboard instrument for three centuries before the invention of the piano. It enjoyed a revival in the second half of the twentieth century, but because of the interruption in its history as a more regularly used instrument, many details about its construction are lacking. In The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook, Thomas Donahue integrates available historical evidence and modern physical principles—from both musicological and scientific literature—to provide practical quantitative information about the stringing of this instrument. The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook covers the composition and properties of iron and brass wire, the interrelationship of frequency to string length, safety factors involved with stringing, the scaling of string lengths, the calculation of diameters, and the determination of the transition from iron to brass in mixed-strung instruments. Supplemental topics include the elasticity and plasticity of wire, inharmonicity, tension and stress, and the interpolation of string lengths. Additional material includes data on selected historical harpsichords, absolute diameters of historical gauge numbering systems, a generated list of tensile strength values for historical wire, and sizes and tensile strengths of currently available wire. This book offers specific guidance for instrument makers, restorers, curators, technicians, musicians, kit builders, wire manufacturers, and acousticians, filling in critical details that historical treatises and surviving instruments may not clearly address.
Author : Robert Palmieri
Release : 2004-06-01
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 638/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Piano by : Robert Palmieri
Download or read book The Piano written by Robert Palmieri. This book was released on 2004-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Piano was selected in its first edition as a Choice Outstanding Book and remains a fascinating and unparalleled reference work. The instrument has been at the center of music history with even composers of large symphonic work asserting that they do not write anything without sketching it out first on a piano; its limitations and expressive capacity have done much to shape the contours of the western musical idiom. Within the scope of this user-friendly guide is everything from the acoustics and construction of the piano to the history of the companies that have built them. The piano-lover might also be surprised to find an entry for Thomas Jefferson, and will no doubt read intently the passages about the changing history of the piano's place in the home. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.
