A description and history of the pianoforte and of the older keyboard stringed instruments . but without evidence. + Rimbault, The Pianoforte, p. 116. The translation here of Mozartsletter needs much correction : shiver, for example, is used for block. THE EAKLY PIANOFORTE. 109 with the key, but attached to the rail behind it. It is theback of the key rising as the front is depressed that causes theescapement and sends the hammer upwards. Steins daughter,Nannette, who was herself a practical pianoforte maker as well as anaccomplished pianist, tuning her piano before she played upon it inpublic
A description and history of the pianoforte and of the older keyboard stringed instruments . but without evidence. + Rimbault, The Pianoforte, p. 116. The translation here of Mozartsletter needs much correction : shiver, for example, is used for block. THE EAKLY PIANOFORTE. 109 with the key, but attached to the rail behind it. It is theback of the key rising as the front is depressed that causes theescapement and sends the hammer upwards. Steins daughter,Nannette, who was herself a practical pianoforte maker as well as anaccomplished pianist, tuning her piano before she played upon it inpublic,^^ was married in 1793 to Andreas Streicher, and under theirjoint care the Viennese grand piano on this principle reached itshighest perfection. Nannette Stein had been a great friend ofBeethoven, and his preference for the Stein pianos when at Bonn isknown. The Streicher Viennese action shows the last constructionof this action : a is the key, b the hopper, i the hopper spring;I is the standard in which the hammer-butt, d, is centred. Theset-otf button is h, the check /, the damper r/.. ?GRAXD PIANOFORTE ACTION OF NANNETTE STREICHER, NEE STEIN, A VIENNA, 1823, AT WINDSOR CASTLE. The grand piano the Brothers Erard made for Napoleon I., in1801, has an action on the Stein principle, and is technically aswell as historically interesting as shoAving the point of departurefrom which Erard started his own action. It has also the row ofpedals customary in Austrian and German pianos of the from left to right the pedals are piano (shifting the action),bassoon (a parchment slip touching the strings for about threeoctaves), damper; piano celeste (muting by thin cloth), anddrum and triangle (for Janissary music, the drum-stick strikingthe underside of the belly of the instrument). A third pianopedal was not uncommon, muting the strings as a sourdine more * Ernst Pauer, The Pianists Dictionary (Stein), London, 1895. 110 THE EARLY PIANOFORTE. completely with leather—a suggestio
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