"transposing" Old Uprights

Clark caccola@net1plus.com
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:29:37 -0200


Conrad wrote:

> So maybe that's the real reason why Ĉolian had transposing keyboards
> (optional) in the early 1900's??
> All you did was shift the keyboard.

Don't forget the special aftermarket labelling sometimes furnished on
keyboards; I made record of a serialized 16-note unsequenced labelling
of an entire keyboard!

I have a Pinafore in the shop whose scale necessitates a shift a minor
third up. Short of a new piano it wants a new keyboard one of these
days.

Clark (calls the white ones "double flats")




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