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"Middle c" Quotes from Famous Books

... vigor; but to be nearly refined without being quite refined is as harrowing as singing just a little off the key. To be far off the key is to be in another key, but to smite at a note and muff it is excruciation. Better far to drone middle C than to aim at high C and miss it ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... The finger holes are disposed in a geometrical division, and the mechanism and position of the keys are entirely different from what had been before. The full compass of the Boehm flute is chromatic, from middle C to C, two octaves above the treble clef C, a range of three octaves, which is common to all concert flutes, and is not peculiar to the Boehm model. Of course this compass is partly produced by altering the pressure of blowing. Columns of air inclosed in pipes vibrate like strings in sections, ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various

... heard, is to be found in any Physical Laboratory. That these tones really vibrate "sympathetically" may be proved by striking ff [Transcriber's Note: Music example indicates sf] this note [Music: C2 With damper pedal] and then pressing down very lightly the keys of G and E just above middle C, thus removing the individual dampers of these notes. In a quiet room the tones are distinctly audible. For another rewarding experiment of the same nature, see the Introduction to the first volume of Arthur Whiting's Pedal Studies and the ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding