id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27149 Shortridge, John D. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries .txt text/plain 5496 415 71 [Illustration: Figure 1.--OUTER CASE OF ALBANA HARPSICHORD.] typical Italian instruments and a general discussion of the stringing and tuning of Italian harpsichords and virginals that is based on virginals as well as the spinet and the harpsichord were keyed [Illustration: Figure 2.--POLYGONAL VIRGINAL IN OUTER CASE.] [Illustration: Figure 3.--POLYGONAL VIRGINAL REMOVED FROM OUTER CASE.] As is true of the great majority of Italian virginals and harpsichords [Illustration: Figure 6.--SOUNDBOARD LAYOUT OF POLYGONAL VIRGINAL. The vibrating lengths of the strings of the polygonal virginal and of If the length of one treble string of an instrument of this sort is that single manual keyboard instruments a fourth apart in pitch were in The correlation of compass and string length of the Italian instruments, that appeared in soundboards of virginals and harpsichords.] The average of the pitch _C_ lengths of the transposing instruments in measured lengths of the pitch _C_ strings of the three instruments tuned ./cache/27149.txt ./txt/27149.txt