Word: clothespress
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Ives' father George was a bandmaster and, until the flowering of his son's talent, Danbury's leading musical citizen. George rigged a contrivance (24 violin strings spread across a clothespress) that produced quarter tones. Determined to stretch his son's musical ear, he had him sing Swanee River in the key of E-flat while Dad accompanied in the key of C. Small wonder that Charles the composer would go on to use polytonality and polyrhythms long before those techniques emerged in the works of Stravinsky and other 20th century musical giants. As Composer Aaron...
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