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Page 440
... tone colour from one end of the keyboard to the other , permitting individ- ual lines in the music to be articulated clearly . For this reason , as well as because of their lower price , the old harpsichord makers built far more single ...
... tone colour from one end of the keyboard to the other , permitting individ- ual lines in the music to be articulated clearly . For this reason , as well as because of their lower price , the old harpsichord makers built far more single ...
Page 441
... tone of unal- tered or properly restored examples is extraordinarily good , and it is easy to see why Ruckers instruments were so highly prized that a lively business in making forgeries of them flourished in the 18th century . In ...
... tone of unal- tered or properly restored examples is extraordinarily good , and it is easy to see why Ruckers instruments were so highly prized that a lively business in making forgeries of them flourished in the 18th century . In ...
Page 997
... tone . For exam- ple , in Mandarin Chinese the words haò " day ” and haŎ " good " are distinguished from one another in that the first has a falling tone and the second a falling - rising tone ; these are realized , respectively , as ...
... tone . For exam- ple , in Mandarin Chinese the words haò " day ” and haŎ " good " are distinguished from one another in that the first has a falling tone and the second a falling - rising tone ; these are realized , respectively , as ...
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