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gully

· January 15, 2016 ·

The grooved recess on the great wheel that controls the start/stop pin-lever assembly.

hammer rail

· January 15, 2016 ·

A long strip of wood in a piano action upon which the piano hammer shanks rest when not in play. Usually movable for soft and loud effects; controlled by the soft pedal. When separated into separate sections for treble and bass, called a split hammer rail, which was operated automatically in certain expression pianos but never available to the pianist via conventional pedals. * German: Hammerleiste, Schieb.

hand organ

· January 15, 2016 ·

A small hand-cranked organ.

hand-cranked

· January 15, 2016 ·

Operated by continuously turning a handle or crank, as in many barrel organs, street pianos, street organs, etc.

hand-played roll

· January 15, 2016 ·

A music roll that is created by a musician playing a keyboard. The keyboard is connected to a recording machine, which draws lines representing the perforations on blank paper as the musician plays. After the recording session, a hole is cut wherever a line occurs on the paper, creating a master roll. A skilled musician then edits the roll to make it sound as much like the artist’s original performance as possible. For the Mills Violano-Virtuoso, a high-speed perforator actually punched the rolls as the artists played the piano and violin parts on separate keyboards (after mid 1920). Generally, this method wasn’t accurate enough to capture the playing of the finest classical pianists for reproducing piano rolls, as the punches could not respond as quickly as a line-marking device could. * See also drawing board arrangement.

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