Word: clavichords
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...rats' nests" in 1745, stayed at the court 20 years until her death at 42. Her figure seemed to be made wholly of nymphish curves: her skin was "snow-white," her eyes "the brightest, wittiest and most sparkling." She could act dance and sing, play the clavichord "to perfection," paint, draw, engrave precious stones, and spout about gardening, botany and natural history-"a more accomplished woman," says Author Mitford, "has seldom lived." The only interesting thing about her childhood comes from an account book, where she records payment of 600 livres to a fortune teller "for having predicted, when...
Socialist George Bernard Shaw turned a capital gain in a London auction. After hanging on to a $160 clavichord for 28 years, he let it go for a well-tempered...
...beyond the earnest, humorless cultists he once played to. Says he: "Audiences used to be largely record collectors and cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless." Kirkpatrick, a bachelor, lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment crowded with two harpsichords, an 18th Century piano, a clavichord and a thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long...
...known as "equal temperament" permits the tuning of a keyboard instrument so that it can be played in any key with equal facility. It was the inspiration for Johann Sebastian Bach's famous collection of 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys: The Well-Tempered Clavichord...
Suddenly the after-dinner music in Pennsylvania Republican politics last week became as harmonious as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord. For the first time in 14 years or so, the quartet of Pew, Grundy, Martin and Davis was singing as one. The Irreconcilables had reconciled. But on no ear did the music fall sweeter than on that of handsome, handshaking Senator James John Davis. Puddler Jim was in the luck again...