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Word: dral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George L. Weitz and the Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral, Shadows of a Spanish Dancer) , devising a system of notation in which raised quarter tones were signified by a sharp-like figure with one vertical crossbar in stead of two, raised three quarter tones with three vertical crossbars; lowered quarter tones by flat-like figures with re versed humps, lowered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Piano | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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