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 | | Hummel was born in Pressburg (what is now Bratislava, which is only about an hour from Vienna), which was at that point part of the Austrian Empire; he was, therefore, Austrian, as was Weidinger, and worked largely in Vienna, as did Weidinger. |
 | | Hummel was, therefore, likely very familiar with Weidinger's instrument; let us not forget that while the Haydn was written in 1796, it was not premiered until 1800. |
 | | Weidinger was continually experimenting with his instrument and tried several keys before his death, and Dahlqvist, in his monograph on Weidinger, states that the lower tessitura of the Hummel (as low notes are easier to produce on a higher instrument) suggests that Weidinger had a new instrument, perhaps with a wider bore. |
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