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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
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 00:11:20 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:06:52 EDT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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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
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