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Aliquot stringing is the use of extra, un-struck strings in a piano for the purpose of enriching the tone. Aliquot systems use an additional (hence fourth) string in each note of the top three piano octaves. This string is positioned slightly above the other three strings so that it is not struck by the hammer.
All but the lowest notes of a piano have multiple strings tuned to the same frequency. The notes with two strings are called bichords, and those with three strings are called trichords. These allow the piano to have a loud attack with a fast decay but a long sustain in the attack–decay–sustain–release (ADSR) system.
B-flat minor is traditionally a 'dark' key. [ 1 ] The old valveless horn was barely capable of playing in B-flat minor: the only example found in 18th-century music is a modulation that occurs in the first minuet of Franz Krommer 's Concertino in D major , Op. 80.
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The autograph score (first page) of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, op. 109.Click to enlarge. The sources for an urtext edition include the autograph (that is, the manuscript produced in the composer's hand), hand copies made by the composer's students and assistants, the first published edition, and other early editions.
In 1874 Mathushek was associated with David H. Dunham of Dunham & Sons, with whom he patented improvements in iron frames and wrestplank bridges, [34] and in 1877 the Mendelssohn Piano Company advertised their latest trichord squares used "Mathushek's new Duplex Overstrung Scale, the greatest improvement in the history of Piano making," and ...
The firm was already famous for its inventions in the field of the reproduction of music when Welte introduced the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1904. "It automatically replayed the tempo, phrasing, dynamics and pedalling of a particular performance, and not just the notes of the music, as was the case with other player pianos of the time."
A study of the manuscript sources, as published by László Somfai [2] finds that Bartók originally intended the quartet to have four movements, not five.. This work, like Bartók String Quartet No. 5, and several other pieces by Bartók, exhibits an arch form — the first movement is thematically related to the last, and the second to the fourth, with the third movement standing alone.