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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2006/03

From: Isaac Bull <contrareed@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Clavichord
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:36:42 -0500

Having played one first hand it is a beautiful and expressive instrument - the only keyboard instrument capable of "vibrato" (german bebung)

Insteresting quote.

ib

----- Original Message -----
From: jimkatz@-----.ca
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:57 am
Subject: [DR-L] Clavichord

>
> >
> > "He who has an aversion to revelry, fury and tumult and whose heart
> > delights
> > in sweet sensations, will pass by the harpsichord and
> fortepiano, and
> > choose
> > the clavichord."
> >
> > -Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) German poet
> > quoted in 1785
>
> Geez, I wouldn't even know where to stick the reed in a
> clavichord, and
> don't even mention the virginal.
>
> Jim =^..^=
>
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