Using historical accounts of harpsichord touch to empirically investigate the production and perception of dynamics on the 1788 Taskin

This article investigates the extent of production and perception of dynamic differences on a French historical harpsichord, extensively revised in 1788 by Pascal Taskin. A historical review reports on the descriptions of two different types of touch found in treatises of the eighteenth century. The...

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Main Authors: Jennifer eMacritchie, Giulia eNuti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00183/full