Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > January 1998 > 1998.01.04 > 05Prev  Next


Music Box Rigid Notation
By Philippe Rouillé

Bonjour Beatrice Robertson.  In answer to your query about music
box articles, may I ask a question to the English speaking MMD
contributors.

Some early carilion cylinders (usually metallic), and some early very
good music boxes, especially by Francois Nicole at the beginning of the
XIXth century, were marked with a regular net of horizontal and
vertical lines to facilitate the implantation of pins.

It is usually called in English "rigid notation cylinders", which seems
to me a bad denomination, as it is not the music which is rigid, but
only the marking of the cylinders.

Would not there be a better denomination, as Arthur Ord-Hume himself
comments in his last book "The Musical box", p 75 ?

Some suggestions : reference grid, metrically marked cylinder, cylindre
"quadrille", checkered or squared cylinders, etc.

Best regards,

Philippe Rouille (Paris, France)


(Message sent Sun 4 Jan 1998, 13:35:45 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

Key Words in Subject:  Box, Music, Notation, Rigid

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page