Category:Quarter-tone grand piano
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References
[edit]- Bohuslav Čížek. "Quarter-Tone and Sixth-Tone Musical Instruments Built according to Designs by Alois Hába". Musicalia (1-2 / 2013): 45-48. Prague: Czech Museum of Music."Quarter-Tone Grand Pianos ",
"The earliest of the instruments here investigated, a quarter-tone grand piano from 1924 deposited today in the Czech Museum of Music under inventory number NM-ČMH E 1342, ... ",
"The quarter-tone grand piano from 1924 in the Czech Museum of Music consists of two independent bodies, one above the other, with separate manufacturer’s serial numbers 37165 and 42750, each body having its own set of strings. There are three manuals, of which the highest (an auxiliary manual with shorter keys) is tuned the same as the lowest, while the central one (shifted slightly to the right) is a quarter tone higher. The instrument has the modern compass of A2–c5 and two normal pedals. It was transferred to the collections of the National Museum from the holdings of the conservatory in Prague in 1970 with the acquisition number 67/1970, and then stood in the first large hall of what was at that time called the Music Division of the National Museum, in the Grand Prior’s Palace in Prague’s Lesser Town (Malá Strana). In 1999 it was restored by Ferdinand Rendl in Prague for the exhibition Three Hundred Years with the Piano, and since 2004 it has been on display in the permanent exposition of the Czech Museum of Music. ",
"In the case of another quarter-tone piano (apparently also a grand piano) we find ourselves on shaky ground. ...... Whether this pertains to the piano from 1925 is not completely certain. No drawing or photograph of such an instrument has yet been found: we must rely only on these verbal reports. That such an instrument existed at that time is confirmed only by the program of the concert on 20 May 1925 (No. 2) where it is stated that besides the piano from 1924, standing on the stage is ‘another new model of quarter-tone piano (with a single resonance case) [...] and in this concert it will be played for the first time.’ In any case it must be said that no such grand piano has been preserved in our country. ",
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Media in category "Quarter-tone grand piano"
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Čtvrttónový klavír 1.jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 1.4 MB
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