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The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family : with over 500 illustrations and plates, 1910
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1CHAPTER XXV.
3The Grand Pianoforte.
5German, Flügel klavier. French, Piano à queue.
6Italian, Piano a coda.
8The piano belongs to the class of stringed instruments with keyboards.
10Construction. The outward appearance of the piano in all its varieties of cottage, square, upright-grand, grand, concert grand, etc., is too well-known to need description. This instrument possesses keys sufficient for a chromatic scale throughout its compass; each note is provided with one, two or three strings in unison (according to the pitch, the medium and high register usually having three) a hammer and a damper (except the two highest octaves which have no dampers) besides a complex system of mechanism. The chief parts of a pianoforte, about which it imports us to know something are, (1) the case and framing, (2) the strings, (3) the wrest plank, (4) the soundboard or belly, (5) the bridges, (6) the action and (7) the pedals; the
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