Abstract
Checklists of (1) surviving Italian harpsichords and virginals with split black keys; (2) similar instruments not known to survive but whose existence can be documented; (3) 26 Italian organs built during the period 1468-1665 that are known to have had split keys. Gives the ranges of these instruments when known. Discusses Frescobaldi's probable involvement with such instruments.
DOI
10.5642/perfpr.199407.02.08
Recommended Citation
Wraight, Denzil and Stembridge, Christopher
(1994)
"Italian split-keyboard instruments with fewer than nineteen divisions to the octave,"
Performance Practice Review:
Vol. 7:
No.
2, Article 8.
DOI: 10.5642/perfpr.199407.02.08
Available at:
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr/vol7/iss2/8