{"id":5499,"date":"2018-10-15T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:07:08","slug":"the-tone-of-the-piano-at-the-turn-of-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5499","title":{"rendered":"The tone of the piano at the turn of the nineteenth century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tIn 1796, the piano maker Johann Andreas Streicher sent Beethoven one of his pianos as a gift.&nbsp; Beethoven&#39;s reply sheds some interesting light on the tone of the piano at this time:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tThere is no doubt that so far as the manner of playing is concerned, the <span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\">pianoforte <\/span>is still the least studied and developed of all instruments; often one thinks that one is merely listening to a harp.&nbsp; And I am delighted, my dear fellow, that you are one of the few who realize and perceive that, provided one can feel the music, one can also make the pianoforte sing.&nbsp; I hope that the time will come when the harp and the pianoforte will be treated as two entirely different instruments.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<br \/>\n\tLetter from Pressberg, November 1796.&nbsp; Cited in: Marek, George (1969) <i>Beethoven: Biography of Genius<\/i>. London: William Kimber, p. 161.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1796, the piano maker Johann Andreas Streicher sent Beethoven one of his pianos as a gift.&nbsp; Beethoven&#39;s reply sheds some interesting light on the tone of the piano at this time: There is no doubt that so far as the manner of playing is concerned, the pianoforte is still the least studied and developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[560,1462,1461],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","tag-beethoven","tag-johann-andreas-streiche","tag-piano-makers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}