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Off at a tangent?

To: F_MINOR@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: Off at a tangent?
From: Kate Clunies-Ross <goldbergs@TALK21.COM>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:33:02 +0000
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I am sorry if this post is a little  off-topic, but can any of the  F-Minor
musical experts please tell me what a  tangent piano is, and how it works?
Yesterday a friend played me a CD of music by CPE Bach, played on the
tangent piano. I have never heard this instrument before; to me, it sounded
like a hybrid between a piano and a harpsichord, a very precise sound, with
something of the dynamics of a piano.
Thinking of GG's experiments with his "harpsipiano", it seems he might have
been interested in such an instrument!

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