| 单词 | dital harp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdital harp The name given to a kind of stop to be pressed by the thumb, by which the pitch of a guitar- or lute-string can be raised by a semitone. dital harp, an instrument invented by Edward Light in 1798, and patented with improvements in 1816, intended to be an improvement of the guitar. It was fitted with ditals. ΚΠ 1816 E. Light Specif. Patent 4041 2 To the harp lute at present in use I apply certain pieces of mechanism which I call ditals or thumb keys. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music at Dital harp Called ‘ditals’ or ‘thumb-keys’, in distinction from ‘pedals’ or ‘foot-keys’. < as lemmas |
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