meh'd at goat cheese yogurt. i wrote a poem (cuz with pizza and strychnine you won't need a feline) titled sprung trap rct and it's as bad as it's true
mouse corpses agree
mozzarella tastes better
than swiss, brie, and cheddar
they won't be caught dead near
paneer, blue, or feta
read musical instruments: an illustrated history from antiquity to the present by mary remnant
the angels, devils, animals and grotesques must help us to re-create the music of their own time
the romanesque harp was..frequently made of willow, and its strings were normally of gut, although metal and twisted hair were also sometimes used. however, franciscan bartholomaeus anglicus, in his de proprietatibus rerum of c. 1250, warned against mixing the gut of sheep and wolves
pitches were relative to each other and not necessarily at a fixed pitch, as he recommends tuning the top string as high as possible without breaking it
in pesful felagheship
leonardo took with him a lyre [lira] that he had made himself
other alterations involved the neck and fingerboard. as early as 1715, vivaldi's 'fingers almost touched the bridge, so there was hardly any room for the bow' .. the removal of the wedge enabled the performer to climb more easily into the higher positions than before. these changes were accomplished just in time for the appearance on the scene of the supreme italian virtuoso nicolo paganini (1782-1840). since that time no great structural changes have taken place in the violin itself, but the addition of the chin rest by louis spohr in c. 1820 gave the performer a better grip on the instrument, thereby allowing more freedom of movement to the left arm
the bow or fydylstyk of the middle ages
since 1964 a new violin family has been developed by mrs carleen hutchins and others of the catgut acoustical society of america
bach's italian concerto, which could not be played effectively on a contemporary single-manual harpsichord because it requires one hand to be playing forte while the other is piano
pizzicato
in the house of fame chaucer said that 'soun ys nocht but eyr ybroken' - sound is nothing but broken air
sackbuts (trombones)
adolphe sax of brussels
a free reed is a small tongue of metal, of which one end is attached to a frame while the other vibrates freely through pressure or suction of air
among the oldest idiophones in art msuic are the round cymbals, of which several bronze pairs survive from antiquity..they have, since 1623, been made predominantly by the armenian family zildjian, at first in constantinople and now in america
chimebells (cymbala)
related to the glockenspiel is the xylophone, which is of primitive origins and can still be found as a folk instrument in many parts of the world. it consists of tuned bars of wood (arranged nowadays like a keyboard) which are hit with sticks or hammers, and has been known in europe at least since the sixteenth century when hans holbein the younger showed it being played by a skeleton in his series of woodcuts the dance of death (1523)
an instrument comes of age when a concerto is written for it
in 1721, bach used instruments which were, or were fast becoming, regular members of the orchestra
the traverse flute..finally took precedence in the middle of the eighteenth century..because of its greatly suitability in the new 'expressive' music where the frequent crescendi and diminuendi would have wrought havoc with the intonation of a recorder
timpani, the chief percussion instruments of the baroque period, were joined for special effects by the triangle, cymbals and the bass drum, which had recently been popularized by the turkish janissary bands, and also by the tambourine
bassoons and hautbois
weber was also responsible for the introduction of the third kettledrum
7 trombones (3 offstage)
an advertisement for the apollo piano player - 'you supply the expression and soul. we supply the technique'
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