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The Sharpsichord is a musical instrument created by Henry Dagg in Faversham, Kent. [1] It is a pin-barrel harp that plays music using a system of pegs, like a music box. [2] [3] The pegs slot into a grid of 11,520 holes [1] to program songs onto a 46-string harp using a chromatic scale. [4] The harp is then amplified by a pair of large horns.
A harpsichord [a] is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, ...
Henry Dagg is a sound sculptor and builder of experimental musical instruments who formerly worked as a sound engineer for the BBC.His works include a pin barrel harp or sharpsichord which was commissioned for the English Folk Dance and Song Society, a pair of steel sculptural musical gates for Rochester Independent College and an artificial "cat organ" (using squeaky toys in place of actual ...
The New Grove musical dictionary summarizes the earliest historical traces of the harpsichord: "The earliest known reference to a harpsichord dates from 1397, when a jurist in Padua wrote that a certain Hermann Poll claimed to have invented an instrument called the 'clavicembalum'; [1] and the earliest known representation of a harpsichord is a sculpture (see below) in an altarpiece of 1425 ...
Harp. Chromatic harp; Electric harp; Folk harp; Pedal Harp (a.k.a. concert harp) Triple harp; Harpsichord (Europe, keyboard instrument) Hu Hu (China) Huapanguera; Huobosi; Ichigenkin; Idiochord (Latin) Inanga (Burundi) Janzi (Uganda) Jarana huasteca; Jarana jarocha. Jarana jarocha requinto; Jarana Leona; Kabosy; Kacapi (Indonesia) Kanklės ...
Concerto for jazz voice, harp and orchestra "The Rise of Estrogenia" (2017) [49] Lowell Liebermann. Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, Op.48 (1995) Frank Martin. Petite symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord, piano and double string orchestra, op.54 (1944) Fabio Mengozzi. Auriga II (piano, harp and string orchestra) Wolfgang Amadeus ...
The Partita for Harpsichord and Orchestra, [1] sometimes also referred to as Partita for Harpsichord, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Harp, Double Bass, and Chamber Orchestra [2] [3] [4] or Harpsichord Concerto, is a composition by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was finished in 1971 and is Penderecki's only major composition for a ...
Michael Mietke II (5 March 1702 – April/August 1754) was his son; he became harpsichord maker to the Königsberg court in 1728. [ 5 ] Georg[e] Mietke (31 January 1704 – 1770), also his son, left Berlin in 1729, moving to Danzig , and then in 1739 to Königsberg, where he had a licence to build 'Claviere, und musikalische Instrumenten' in 1747.