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	Tangent (tangent piano) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tangent, when referred to in the context of the action of a tangent piano refers to the small slip of wood similar in shape to a harpsichord jack or similar to an unleathered fortepiano hammer which strikes the string to produce sound.
		In the clavichord, the tangent remains in contact with the string to keep the note sounding, while in the tangent piano, the tangent immediately rebounds from the string so that the string is allowed to vibrate freely (that is, it has an escapement).
		It is similar to the tangent of a clavichord only in the sense that they both are driven ultimately by the player's finger to strike the string to initate sound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tangent_mechanism (161 words)

	Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Mischa Maisky at jsbach.org
		Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Mischa Maisky at jsbach.org
		This recording of the sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord performed on cello and piano is from 1985.
		The similar timbres of the cello and piano actually made it easier for me to pick out the separate parts and enjoy the ingenious interaction between the two.
	www.jsbach.org /maiskysonatasforcelloandpiano.html (326 words)

	MHSchool: McGraw-Hill Music 2005
		While the tangent is still in contact with the strings and therefore able to influence the sound, an increase or decrease of pressure on the key can produce a number of effects.
		The psaltery is a medieval ancestor of the piano.
		The history of the piano during this time was one of astonishing improvement, including the development of heavier and more agile hammers (capable of a wide range of volume and tone), and advances in the technology of thicker, more tense strings.
	www.mhschool.com /music/2005/teacher/teachingideas/instruments/keyboard.html (1593 words)

	SJSU Historical Keyboard Collection - Technological Evolution
		The clavichord, which dates from the 15th century, is mechanically simple: when a key is depressed a metal tangent in the back rises “teetor-totter” style and contacts the string to make a sound.
		The Erard piano has a mechanism called the double escapement repetition, allowing the hammer to reset for another blow (to the string) by the slightest release of the key.
		Unlike a piano, the amount of downward force on the key makes little or no change in the volume of sound when a note is played.
	www.music.sjsu.edu /links/piano/tech.html (831 words)

	A Short History of the Piano
		Even the fortepiano, the name given to the earliest piano to distinguish it from the modern pianoforte, or piano, has its own feel—the depth of the key fall is shallow and it takes much less weight to press the key down.
		In a piano, a hammer is thrown at the strings when you press a key on the keyboard.
		There were many fascinating experiments that produced the giraffe piano, in which the wing-shaped body extended towards the ceiling, or the instrument with six keyboards.
	home.earthlink.net /~fons/id20.html (1371 words)

	The Piano Place - The Invention of the Pianoforte: an essay
		Instead of striking the string with a tangent, the harpsichord uses a bird quill or a piece of hard leather (referred to as the plectrum) to pluck its strings.
		Now that the piano had brought keyboard music out of the châteaux of the upper class and into popularity, the class of people interested in music began to grow, and more people began to pay to hear music for just one instrument (earlier composers had to write for several, always).
		It is necessary to mention that while the piano became the norm for keyboards soon after its invention, the harpsichord, despite its waning popularity, has not died.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Studio/6917/historypiano.html (1719 words)

	Upright Piano : Baby Grand Piano - Play piano Pianos : Piano sheet music
		piano sohmer upright The tuning forks themselves are "unbalanced" or asymmetrical: one arm consists of a short, stiff metal rod (essentially a stiff wire) called a "tine" which is struck by the hammer, and the other arm is a tuned resonator resembling a piece of metal bar stock, sized to sound the appropriate note.
		Rhodes at this point changed internally history piano upright antique baldwin piano upright The hammers were plastic, the pedestals were bare, (the felt was on the underside of the hammer), the pickups were a different shape, and the tine structure differed from pre-1975 tines.
		When he built his first piano is not entirely clear, classical piano piano instruction pianorental piano piece but an inventory made by Cristofori's employers, piano-score roland piano online piano keyboard the three that survive today date from the 1720s.
	www.tkk.pl /~xpc/upright_piano (4938 words)

	Clavichord
		To the left of the tangent, the vibrations of the string are silenced by felt woven through the strings near the hitchpins; when the key is released, the felt silences the entire string.
		When the player depresses the front of the key, the tangent rises, striking the string, both setting it in vibration and determining its sounding length, which is from the bridge to the tangent.
		Early clavichords were fretted: Clavichord tangents for two, three, or four keys were placed at different points along the same string, which, when struck, caused a different series of notes to be sounded.
	www.pianorestoring.com /History_Education/clavicho.htm (389 words)

	HomeCollectionsCollection of Ancient Musical InstrumentsKeyboard instrumentsTangent-action Piano
		One of the solutions was the so-called tangent-action pianoforte in which the tangent, a narrow wooden stick, was struck against the string.
		Later the pianoforte, in which leathered hammers struck the strings, achieving greater volume of sound, displaced the tangent-action piano.
		During the second half of the 18th century instrument-makers tried to overcome the lack of dynamic shading of the harpsichord.
	www.khm.at /staticE/page210.html (78 words)

	Creative Keyboard Feature Article
		The strings were struck by a metal rod called a "tangent." When the key was pressed down, the tangent rose to strike the string and stayed against the string until the key was released.
		Steinway and Sons made a further improvement on the piano in 1859 by dividing the overstringing into two crossings--that is, he put the longer bass strings at an angle across some of the shorter strings.
		It took the pianoforte just about a century from its birth to about 1800 to overtake the harpsichord and clavichord as the most favored keyboard instrument, for the newer type of instrument was only slowly subject to improvements and the older were in their full glory of perfection.
	www.creativekeyboard.com /jan00/history.html (1313 words)

	The Development of the Piano
		However, the wing formed case, the use of the two or three strings for one note, and lastly the forte piano pedal and shifting the keyboard, those ideas from the harpsichord were used widely on the piano forte makers.
		The concert piano of today is a most noble instrument, embodying the best thoughts of the greatest masters in the art of piano construction.
		However, the earlier square pianos were weak in tone and not to be compared to the grand pianoforte.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/classical/piano/piano.htm (1261 words)

	Shaffer Pianos - Rebuilt and Restored Antique Steinway, Bosendorfer, Chickering and other rare vintage Grand Pianos
		The tangent also acts as a fret, and the note sounds until the key is released.
		Piano construction in Vienna was influenced by the musical culture of the 18th and 19th centuries.
		There were certain limitations to the regular player piano, the primary one being that it did not have the ability to reproduce the expression of a concert pianist.
	www.shafferpianos.com /history.html (2934 words)

	What Are Historical Keyboard Instruments
		are the tangent piano, an early rival of the hammered fortepiano; and the geigenwerk, which attempted to imitate the sound of the violin in a keyboard instrument using spinning, rosin-coated wheels.
		Because the tangent remains in contact with the string as it speaks, it is possible to add small variations in the pitch of the notes; a unique addition to the expressive palette.
		While it is fine to play music of these composers on our modern piano or organ, it must be remembered that the resulting sound, as well as the technique used to produce it, will be different from what would have been experienced in the composer's own time.
	www.mhks.org /whatare.htm (1285 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Miklós Spányi plays all of these works on a delightful-sounding tangent piano (a sort of cross between a harpsichord and a piano) with his customary verve and insightful musicianship.
		C.P.E. Keyboard Concertos in E-flat major (W. 35) and C minor (W. 5); Sonatinas in D (W. 96) and G (W. Miklós Spányi (tangent piano)
		C.P.E. Bach was a marvelous composer, and it's rather amazing to consider that until BIS began this estimable series, the vast majority of his more than 60 keyboard concertos remained unknown.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=1543 (220 words)

	Robert Hicks Harpsichords
		Cristofori’s piano action is looked into, and he gives potted descriptions of the lautenwerk and the tangentenflügel.
		Piano makers had to scramble to catch up to the "Hammerklavier", and then scramble some more when Liszt started wrecking pianos on stage.
		A great many makers today, faced with customers who are used to the solidity of pianos and coffee tables, err on the side of too much structure (as it were) and reduce the resonance to a dignified rustle.
	hicksharpsichords.com /oeuvres.html (9974 words)

	Early Piano History
		The tangent action is basically a metal rod (tangent) fixed to the back of the key, which strikes the string when the front of the key is depressed.
		Josef Hirt states that, "The ideal of piano building in the 18th and early 19th century was to retain the silvery tone of the plucked instrument.
		In volume V, published in 1711, Maffei wrote of "Nuova invenzione d'un gravicembalo col piano e forte," meaning "New invention of a harpsichord with the soft and loud." Gravicembalo may be a reference to the gravity operation of the hammers or just a misspelling of the word clavicembalo.
	a440piano.com /Forte-Piano.htm (3994 words)

	The Tangent
		Although The Tangent 'touring' band lineup is not yet confirmed for 2005 you can be sure that any further replacements will again be of the highest caliber as the band build on their success and reinforce themselves as the 21st century's first new major Progressive act.
		While there may be some room for argument as to whether The Tangent’s debut album, The Music That Died Alone was the 2003 Album of the Year, there is no possible doubt that it was surprise album of the year.
		The Tangent's debut album, The Music That Died Alone was released on Sept 22 - 2003 by Inside Out Records and gained world wide notoriety and was awarded best prog album of the year in most progressive rock websites.
	www.rosfest.com /Performers-2005/The_Tangent.htm (471 words)

	Johann Gottfried Eckard
		The tangent piano is an early form of the fortepiano.
		The sound and touch of such fortepianos hardly differ from those of the tangent piano, so the use of this instrument—besides musical-aesthetic reasons—is also justified by historical evidence.
		For the above reasons, this recording presents Eckard's surviving works partly on clavichord and partly on tangent piano.
	www.harpsichord-sd.com /clavichord/eckard.html (1190 words)

	SquareSound Forums - Clavichord?
		On a clavichord, the sound is made by a piece of metal (called a tangent) striking the string, but the tangent doesn't fall away like a piano hammer does, it stays in contact with the string as long as you hold the key down.
		So, the pitch of the note you play is determined by its 'sounding length', that is the length of the string which is vibrating, and that is between the tangent and the bridge.
		One end of a clavichord's string is damped, so the string only sounds on one side of the tangent.
	www.squaresound.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4365 (988 words)

	THE TANGENT The Music That Died Alone reviews and MP3
		Tangent’s homage to Canterbury music and all that its sound has done explodes into the room with gusto and energy of a jazzed up Canterbury scene (thanks to David Jackson’s sax).
		The Tangent is one of the best yet, as the release The Music That Died Alone proves without leaving any room for doubt.
		The TANGENT are a kind of “supergroup” with Roine Stolt, Zoltan Csorsz and Jonas Reingold (LOWER KINGS), David Jackson (VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR) and Andy Tillison (PARALLEL OR 90 DEGREES).
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=3300 (4384 words)

	Iowa Composers Workshop Presents New Works Nov. 7
		With the exception of two chords, all the pitches in "Tangent IV" come from the highest 19 notes of the piano.
		-- "Tangent IV and V" for solo piano by Luke Dahn;
		The contrasting "Tangent V" is in two very separate halves: the first half contains a recurring rumbling figure almost resembling distant thunder, while the second half is marked by agitated passages and an obstinate F-sharp major chord.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2004/october/102904composers.html (997 words)

	Records International Catalogue September 1999
		HENRIETTE BOSMANS (1895-1952): Concertstück for Flute and Chamber Orchestra, Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, Poème for Cello and Orchestra.
		The Swiss Brünings' piano sonatas are in similar style, attesting to the vigor of musical life in Zürich at the end of the 18th century.
		The piano concerto is a full-throated, dizzyingly romantic work from 1927-35 whose first movement sounds now like a Swedish Rachmaninov and now like the score to an echt-Hollywood romance of the 1930s.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogSep99.html (11164 words)

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	CBH The Clavichord
		The back part of the key rises, and the tangent taps the string, both exciting it into vibration and determining its speaking length at the same moment.
		It is the degree of control allowed by this immediacy of touch, which is so lacking in all other keyboard instruments: In the clavichord, the finger is always in direct connection through the key and tangent to the sounding string.
		This uprising of the piano can probably be attributed to the fact that it attempted to combine the best features of two very different keyboard instruments: Some of the expressiveness of the clavichord, at the rather more sociable volume level of the harpsichord, enabling serious use with other instruments.
	www.hpschd.nu /clav.html (886 words)

	New Titles: Compact Discs: Lewis Music Library: MIT Libraries
		IV: Erikhthon, for piano and orchestra; Ata, for orchestra; Akrata, for 16 winds; Krinòïdi, for orchestra.
		24 preludes for violin and piano; T'filah; Postlude.
		Piano concerto no. 2 in C major; String quartet, op.
	libraries.mit.edu /music/news/905/cds.html (2292 words)

	Records International Catalogue February 1998
		Precisely notated and played on the keys of the piano (though with some unusual resonant effects achieved by means of holding down keys in combinations not possible with the piano's own pedals), these etudes conjure a floating, timeless universe, appropriately enough given their extraterrestrial inspiration.
		The op 129 piano pieces, written when Senfter was 78, extend this language, but not far; this is still a composer rooted in the traditions of romanticism, unafraid of unfashionable emotional extroversion, which if anything is more apparent in these late works.
		The formidably virtuosic (for both players) Concertante for flute and piano also deserves to be widely popular, while the piano quartet of 1979 exhibits an exemplary clarity of vision and sustains an intensely concentrated and multifaceted drama for its duration of over half an hour.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogFeb98.html (10434 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Dictionary T - Tb
		However, unlike clavichords, where the key and tangent are at opposite ends of a lever, the action of this instrument uses an intermediate lever to launch the tangent into the string while lifting dampers from the strings, a method similar, but much simpler, to ones used for hammer struck pianos.
		The tangent piano achieved some success in the latter part of the 18th-century, even if its influence was short-lived and was soon replaced by the fortepiano.
		(German) a piano where the sound is produced not by hammers but by metal tangents strike the strings to produce a sound.
	www.dolmetsch.com /defst.htm (5437 words)

	A1 Classical Enthusiast - ClassicalEnthusiast.com Your Source for classical music
		Bach, Concerto for Piano, Violin and Flute BWV 1044 {w.Jean-Philippe Collard, Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Philippe Bernold}; Piano Concerti BWV 1054 {w.Gabriel Tacchino}, 1057 {w.Bruno Rigutto} and 1058 {w.Michel Beroff}.
		Arutiunian, Concerto in A-flat for Trumpet and Piano.
		Auerbach, Lera {b.1973}: 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano Op.46; T'filah {Prayer} for Violin Solo; Postlude for Violin and Piano.
	www.classicalenthusiast.com /entirelist.html (9494 words)

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