In 1816 Johann Nepomuk Maelzel patented this device used by musicians to keep correct tempo
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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel - Wikipedia  Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (or Mlzel; August 15, 1772  July 21, 1838) was a German inventor ... The son of an organ builder, he received a comprehensive musical ... In 1816 Maelzel became established in Paris as manufacturer of his newly ... of Maelzel's metronome and declared he would stop using traditional tempo...
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Metronome - Cosmeo  Musicians device usually pyramidal in shape that clicks audibly at exactly timed intervals as an aid to keeping correct tempo. ... It was patented in 1816 by the German musician and inventor Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-1838); however, it was actually conceived about 1812 by the Dutch inventor Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel...
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Who invented the metronome? - You Ask Andy  Mar 31, 2008 ... A metronome is a musician's device, usually in the shape of a pyramid, that clicks audibly at exactly timed intervals as an aid to keeping correct tempo. In 1816 the metronome was patented by a German musician and inventor named Johann Nepomuk Maelzel. ... When was coal first used?
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John Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-1838) - Pennsylvania Historical ...  May 31, 2007 ... Maelzel is known today as the inventor of the metronome. ... clicks audibly at exactly timed intervals as an aid to keeping correct tempo. The mechanical metronome was patented in 1816 by the German musician and inventor Johann ... or down along the pendulum is used to adjust the tempo of the device.
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Metronome - Wikiquote  A Metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks (beats). ... using the metronome as a constant guide to ramp up the speed or to keep ... If over used, it can lead to loss of your internal rhythm, loss of musicality, and ... For such subtle nuances of tempo and expression there are no signs in our musical alphabet.
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Clock a History - Timekeepers - Timekeepingsite.org  Mankind has used the sun, water clock, Clepsydras, candle alarm clock, ... Historians do not know who or when mankind "invented" a time-keeping device or "clock". ... available to use for converting the Sundial time to your local Mean Solar time. ... however, it was not until the invention of the pendulum-regulated clock after...
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Folklore Test #2 Flashcards | Quizlet  Composer, used the European Lute, a fixture of the courts, the lute was also associated ... almost 2000 year old image, chordophone, a small plucked instrument, .... people of the port cities, brought together the slave trade through the port cities .... Country music stars perform there now much like the way bluegrass players...
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Armonica - Uses the finger tips to play glass plates that rotate ...  Glass Harmonica | Musical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin ... The glass harmonica (also known as the glass armonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, .... The unique bridge seen here on this kora lifts the strings on a plane ...... I would love one of these, so I could create my own melody in the music box, although...
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Full text of "The watch jobber's handybook : A practical manual on ...  Pliny ascribes the invention to Anaximander, a Greek philosopher, about 550 B.C., but ... Such a clock was the time measurer used by Tycho Brahe, the Danish ... But commonly the name of watch is appropriated to such as are carried in the ... an instrument adapted for marine service, he proceeded to London in 1735 with a...
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The Glass Armonica - Benjamin Franklin's Magical Musical Invention  Here's a "census" of all the Franklin era armonicas I've been able to find. ... It's one thing to read about these things in history books; it's another thing to see ... The instrument, known as the glass harmonica, attracted the interest of several...
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Metronome - Wikipedia  A metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks (beats, clicks)  settable in ... Human beings seldom play music at an exact tempo with all the beats ... mechanical musical chronometer was invented by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel in ... metronome click tracks, which can use different sounds and samples instead...
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Abstracts of Papers - American Musical Instrument Society  Within a generation of its invention by Pichenot Jeune in 1829, the accordion spread ... and was the most popular at home instrument in use on the European continent. ... were stamped with the maker's name as well as that of the reseller, but in ... the way that many commercial piano makers used jobbed parts for their...
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Jeopary Question, INVENTIONS - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: INVENTIONS - Edison suggested it be used to record phone calls & make clocks talk.
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1498: Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent - Primary Sources on ...  Commentary on Ottaviano Petrucci's music printing patent ... is traditionally credited with the invention of the art of printing music from moveable type, .... This format was first introduced in 1501 by a prominent Venetian printer Aldus .... Though from the mid-sixteenth century, privileges began to be applied to any selection...
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Glossary of Musical Terms - Classical Works  Beat -, The unit of musical rhythm. ... The tune may also be played at different speeds, backwards, or inverted. ... Da Capo -, In sheet music, an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before .... Rhythm -, The element of music pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
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Musical Instruments Flashcards | Quizlet  Device used to veil or muffle the tone of an instruments, the mute is a clamp ... or quill used to pluck the strings of certain instruments, such as the guitar, koto, and harpsichord. .... Brass instrument similar in shape to a trumpet, with a mellower tone ... calfskin or plastic stretched across the tops, played with soft padded mallets.
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THE METRONOME - Facebook  Beethoven stated this latter idea clearly when he chose a speed for So oder so, ... the idea from Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel (1777-1826), a German inventor who had ... laws of physics that govern their regular motions could apply to music as well. .... Still, at the first attempts to use the metronome to keep a steady beat, the new...
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Inside The Music Industry - Chronology - Technology And The Music ...  May 27, 2004 ... the way the music died [home] ... An examination of some of the technological milestones of recorded ... As one of 30 franchises competing in the graphophone leasing ... discs that rotate at 33 1/3 rpm and are used to pre-record radio. ... In 1958, RCA offers cassette tapes for $1 more than the vinyl album.
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Twelve-tone technique - Wikipedia  Twelve-tone techniquealso known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note compositionis a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg ... Invented by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in 1921 and first described privately to his associates in...
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Metronome | Define Metronome at Dictionary.com  Let us now, equipped with the results of our visual experiments, turn our attention again to ... a mechanical device which indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music by producing a clicking sound from a pendulum with an adjustable period of swing ... Learn the correct uses of these two commonly confused homophones.