- Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance
Third Edition: Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- How the book is arranged
- This third edition
- Safety
- Antique instruments
- Pitch notation
- Technical terms
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- PART ONE: TUNING
- Chapter 1: First steps in tuning
- Chapter 2: Correcting mistuned unisons
- Chapter 3: Beats and beat rates
- Chapter 4: Correcting octaves
- Chapter 5: Temperament – what it is
- and why we need it
- Chapter 6: A brief history of temperament
- Chapter 7: Performing a full tuning
- Chapter 8: Temperament-setting techniques
- Chapter 9: Fretted clavichords
- Chapter 10: Tuning the four-foot strings
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- PART TWO: MAINTENANCE
- Chapter 11: Environment and general care
- Chapter 12: Replacing broken strings
- Chapter 13: Making hitch-pin loops
- Chapter 14: Dealing with sticking keys
- Chapter 15: Listing
- Chapter 16: Faults affecting tuning
- Chapter 17: Knocks, rattles and squeaks &c.
- Chapter 18: Overwound and twined strings
- Chapter 19: Impproving the sound and touch
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- PART THREE: TUNING SCHEMES
- Introduction: how to use the schemes
- List of tuning schemes
- Key to symbols used in diagrams
- Multiple-fretted clavichords
- Triple-fretted clavichords
- Diatonically fretted clavichords
- Unfretted clavichords
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- PART FOUR: FURTHER INFORMATION
- Appendix 1: Fretting ratios
- Appendix 2: Scales and scaling
- Appendix 3: Hygrometers and humidifiers
- Appendix 4: False beats
- Appendix 5: Sources of tools and materials
- Selective bibliography
- Glossary
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- INDEX