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Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:52:56 -0500
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Judith Conrad wrote:

> I got an answer on this from Margo Schulter, with permission to forward;
> may I say she knows her stuff! Obviously I would prefer to tune the E flat
> to D# in a couple of these pieces, but it's a fretted clavichord, it is
> not an aption in the middle of the piece. Nor on organ, and I think those
> were the two likely instruments the pieces were written for and at. Of
> course Valencia Cathedral may have had split keys, I really don't know.

Am I dreaming, or is it possible to "bend" pitches on a clavichord?

Beth

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