The atypical "harmonic" version of this instrument is used almost exclusively by French composers.
The atypical "harmonic" version of this instrument is used almost exclusively by French composers. The typical version is tuned diatonically in the key of C-flat, through six octaves and a fifth. At the front of it, called the front pillar, are seven pedals that can be depressed two notches each, and which shorten the strings to sound one or two pitches higher. FTP, what is this instrument in which approximately 45 strings are stretched in a triangular frame?
The atypical "harmonic" version of this instrument is used almost exclusively by French composers.
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