Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Harpsichord Keyboards Message-ID: <3406@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 00:11:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3406 Posted: Wed Sep 26 00:11:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:06:52 EDT References: <4584@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16 To: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA Subject: Re: Harpsichord Keyboards In-reply-to: your article <4584@brl-tgr.ARPA> Two-manual harpsichords, like two-manual organs (after which they are patterned) usually have an inter-manual coupler, a device which when in use causes the keys of one manual to operate the action of the other. There are two manuals (again, as on the organ) because it is therefore possible to use two different tonal effects -- derived from the selection of different combinations of ranks of strings -- simultaneously (one with each hand) or in rapid alternation. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell