Re: request
From Dennis Hammes <scr...@worldnet.att.net>
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· 4 Mar 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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Ben Norwood wrote: > [snippage] > ______________________________________________________________ > |#| || |#|#| || || |#|#| || |#|#| || || |#|#| || |#|#| || || |#| > |#| || |#|#| || || |#|#| || |#|#| || || |#|#| || |#|#| || || |#| > |#|_||_|#|#|_||_||_|#|#|_||_|#|#|_||_||_|#|#|_||_|#|#|_||_||_|#| > |##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##| > |##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##|##| > mbfh > > Interestingly enough some pianos/harpsichords/clavichords used to have > 'swapped' key colourings (i.e. the raised groups of 2/3 were white, the > rest were black)... > > -- > Ben Norwood - the (ex-)Mad Biologist From Hell ...because the planar (and most-played) keycaps were made of rosewood or ebony, both hard enough to be used for fingerboards (under strings), both black or nearly so, however I've seen rather a bit of rock maple (a lot cheaper) used in European and replica instruments -- for either row but not both. The "3/2" (accidental) keys were capped with birch, hence the "reversed" colors (they aren't). (The body of the key, usually about 18" long, is made of a boxwood or popple that fingernails would chew up in a week, being supple enough not to snap.) When Europe discovered Colonial Economics, ivory veneer replaced plain wood as the harder material, and the 2/3 keys got the rosewood/ebony caps, reversing the traditional colors. Ivory was replaced by acetate, then lucite, which can be any color you please; so, eventually, was ebony. The keybars are still boxwood. BTW, even after 50 years, the black keys on Schroeder's piano were still only painted on. -- >^,,^< The number you have reached is imaginary. Rotate your screen 90 degrees and reconnect. http://blitz.org/fishhook/
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