DOI Heft:
No. 85 (April, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0201
Studio- Talk
"fog" "wind"
two of a series of panels representing "winter" by f. n. shepard
wood. This result may seem quite a simple one Many persons are very inquisitive as to the way
to achieve, yet the surfaces of a key-board instru- in which a musical instrument is designed To
ment are so tempting that it is hard indeed to them, however, Mr. Dolmetsch gives very little
avoid painting on them in a manner far too encouragement, having no recipes of design to
pictorial. As an example of a good old style offer. " Musical instruments design themselves,"
of ornament, an illustration is given on page 192 of he says with enthusiasm, meaning by this that the
an ancient Italian virginal, the sound board of which beauty of their constructional parts and lines has
is decorated with some fluent scrolls having a its origin in certain fixed mechanical rules and
rare grace of form and movement. This virginal practical needs that govern a master craftsman
was made in 1584, and the unknown artist who throughout the whole course of his constructional
painted it had a dexterity of hand equal to that of work. In a clavichord, for example, the curve of
the Persian potters. the bridge is determined, not by somebody's
- unfettered inventiveness, but by the required
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"fog" "wind"
two of a series of panels representing "winter" by f. n. shepard
wood. This result may seem quite a simple one Many persons are very inquisitive as to the way
to achieve, yet the surfaces of a key-board instru- in which a musical instrument is designed To
ment are so tempting that it is hard indeed to them, however, Mr. Dolmetsch gives very little
avoid painting on them in a manner far too encouragement, having no recipes of design to
pictorial. As an example of a good old style offer. " Musical instruments design themselves,"
of ornament, an illustration is given on page 192 of he says with enthusiasm, meaning by this that the
an ancient Italian virginal, the sound board of which beauty of their constructional parts and lines has
is decorated with some fluent scrolls having a its origin in certain fixed mechanical rules and
rare grace of form and movement. This virginal practical needs that govern a master craftsman
was made in 1584, and the unknown artist who throughout the whole course of his constructional
painted it had a dexterity of hand equal to that of work. In a clavichord, for example, the curve of
the Persian potters. the bridge is determined, not by somebody's
- unfettered inventiveness, but by the required
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