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octaves (ff to f'''), and knee levers instead of pedals to raise the dampers and to apply muting. a lightweight wooden frame with consequent low string tension, leather covered hammers, and light, simple, direct action combined to produce an incisive, percussive sound with little volume or sustaining
, with the earlier, mostly separated, harpsichord-influenced approach being replaced by a dominantly legato style around 1800 (in a conversation with his pupil czerny, beethoven asserted that mozart "used a technique entirely unsuited to the piano"). ~~ the clarinet of the classical period was made of...
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and south germany, had a small range of normally five octaves (ff to f'''), and either knee levers or hand stops instead of pedals to raise the dampers and to apply muting. a lightweight wooden frame with consequent low string tension, leather covered hammers, and light, simple, direct action combined
pianos of a recognizably modern type, which began shortly before 1800, was paralleled by a fundamental change in the way it was played, with the earlier, mostly separated, harpsichord-influenced approach being replaced by a dominantly legato style....
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