New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-03
nnrcreSoRs OF THE PIAN0FOR1E'
rus,rt GIVES THE LAST LECTURE IN
sTFINWAY HALL.

sTTINWAY HALL.
.,asa bv clavichords, harpsichcrdS al" , 1pu
,, Krehbel last night closed s'e -,''t..a
-, ,,s ,ectnre on The Precursors OF '"V +ho.o
~rrad Ansorge gave Illustrative ~, Tho corrso
- Instruments every now ana l"'" 49,. a,,c,,od
70 .no lecture and evolved that music "'n -, o,.,
- IA Gentlemen in kncc-brccches anu VIII.
the ola 'r, tnn ancestral portraits Mlhuets
rd .formal manners and ponpo"' , ,o,c-urusod
ON ~ an fancy at the sound OF the'c ioie "''"
!. .ao,e An audience, cultivated ana "pP =
tic dIled the hall THIS tno ,
ill he used as a place OF p'oi,V ,i,,i,c Of bie
, Ar Krelbiel announced al ' - .h|, ,,.o,, "a
s.oourse that il would be MS ai'" " - Ct. Nh,
~ the principles employed !" u. M t,at no bonoa
.,., their physical inecumei'' "" .r naI'o
IMAM .'. A." in,rinatlon and quicken inc appfeneh-
10 SUI w 1rdeued the faculty OF memory Whlch
s''''' ,ouou, most taxed by histories" S'"us' ~ nus
- h ,rou,d have little 10 say apou' e'"SNo "a'0'
"a s,rarco names and would appear " Wv
Az. ,oo,s as often as the recoruS W P'V''
RI NOV NJ treatment he lllusu"'u az V"V0 ~ U''
ms pan " .ir,n Of all instruments OF the strngcd
covering inc o'is .Ao nrlmeval savage and quoting
class Ill "0 mythology to prove that Apollo was
Io"o' " 81. hecause he was bearer OF the bow.
uio 30 ..,on IN the fact that many saVases To-Day
ho .,, hows for musical instruments ana showed Il
,.r of nm early Egyptian harp "ich sun pfcSerNeu
the old bow shapc' -. ,,s,r,mo,t in which
An. .unns ara soupded by being struck Gnstead of
.o,rc nIucked as on the harp, or rubbed as Oh inc
violin, the lecturer found in sculpture picture Oh
a1.ion ON an Assyrian monument dating back TO
e., s,vth centnry before Christ. The shape of this
instrument as well Of the primitive ones OF the
.avarcs and their highly developed successors were
shown In a series of pictures which enbellshed The
nrorramme of the lecture. The keyboard was traced
hack TO instruments Of the organ kind used in antique
aud it, onp1i.a
strinced instrument attributed 10 the monks of GOO
or 700 wears ago who put keys TO the old monochord
NJ Pythacos in order to assist them In teaching music
These KEYS were simple levers armed at the further
end with tongue of brass which struck the string
when the key pressed down, causing the string TO
sound and at the same time determining the
length Of the string whose vibration produced The dc
sired tone. At that time and until the first quarter
of the eighteenth century. each string called on
for several notes Mr. Krehbiel exhibited clavichori
which retained the features of the scientific monochod
that has been described. II one Of VI. seinertS
instruments exhibited at the Felowcraft Club last
Wednesday. and, except in the lowest octave, there
were three keys to each string on larger speci-
men Of the instrument. Mr.. AnSorge played the
first Prelude from Bach's WelLTempered Ciavlchor'
The next instruments discussed were those which
employed keybOaIds. but whose strings were sounded
by being puckcd twanGcd with bits of quilts placed
in Jacks. OF these the most familiar names aro
spnet, virginia. ana harpSlChOid On Ldfp>I'hO!u
built by kirchman, of London in 1916, Mr.. Ansorsc
play cd air and variations called The queens Com
nand." by Orlando Gibbons, who died in 1922. Mr..
Krehbiel gave ii his opinion that the panOfOre
had been independently and originally invented by
Italian, who was earliest, M.rius.
FTenchman, who was second In respect
1 priority and schroecr German, who
was latest. but had left the most interesting and
Instructive of his work. The pcculiaritics Of
he panoforte from that time down to the present
Nere described in brief. and Mr.. AnsOrgc played on
A grand Of Mozart'S time. one of 1olG made Nv
Nannete strecher the friend of Beethoven. and the
modern instrument whose development Nj. krchhel
said owed much to the genius of List and the
ngenuity Of American builders.
Mr. Krehbel will deliver the same lecture in
Osborn Hail. New Haven. next Tuesday. at the request
IF the Chair of Music Of Yale University, and Will
use the instruments to Illustrate his lecture.