William Braid White

CONTENTS.

SOME REMARKS BY THE PUBLISHER.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

CHAPTER II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE PIANOFORTE.

CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF THE MODERN PIANOFORTE.

CHAPTER IV. ACOUSTICAL LAWS OF SOUNDING STRINGS.

CHAPTER V. THE MUSICAL SCALE AND MUSICAL INTONATION.

CHAPTER VI. THE EQUAL TEMPERAMENT.

CHAPTER VII. PIANOFORTE STRINGS AND THEIR PROPER DIMENSIONS.

CHAPTER VIII. RESONANCE AND THE RESONANCE-APPARATUS OF THE PIANOFORTE.

CHAPTER IX. THE CASE AND FRAMING OF THE PIANOFORTE.

CHAPTER X. THE IRON FRAME OF THE PIANOFORTE.

CHAPTER XI. THE MECHANISM OF PERCUSSION.

CHAPTER XII. THE TOUCH MECHANISM.

CHAPTER XIII. REGULATION OF PIANOFORTE TOUCH MECHANISM.

CHAPTER XIV. TUNING AND TONE REGULATION OF THE PIANOFORTE.

CHAPTER XV. THE DRAUGHTING OF THE PIANOFORTE SCALE.

CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION.

APPENDIX A. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAYER-PIANO.

APPENDIX B. THE SMALL GRAND.

Transcriber’s Note:

The original contains inconsistent hyphenation; this has been preserved. Obvious printer’s errors have been corrected; a full list is available at the end of this book.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

William B. White

Theory and Practice of
PIANO CONSTRUCTION

With a Detailed, Practical
Method for Tuning

Dover Publications, Inc.
New York

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Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC 2.

This Dover edition, first published in 1975, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Edward Lyman Bill, Publisher, New York, in 1906 under the title Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building.

International Standard Book Number: 0-486-23139-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-78811

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