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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>French spelling. as in giraffe with the long
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A
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<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>John,</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
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size=2>At 20:42 +0100 15/4/08, David Boyce wrote:<BR><BR>>I'll give you it
for "agraffe" which basically means a hook, and is <BR>>sort-of descriptive
of the piano part. (The modern French for a <BR>>staple is
agraffe).<BR><BR>Well, in the first place the word is agrafe with one f.
Next it does <BR>not mean, in that sense, a hook but a hook-and-eye
fastening. The <BR>reason the word is used is that Erard used it.
In England the proper <BR>name of the part is "stud" but people just
love to mis-spell and <BR>mispronounce things, so they call it an agraffe and
usually pronounce <BR>it Ague-raff in case it is confused with a
Bee-graf.<BR><BR>>But the etymology of Capo d'astro (or Capo d'asto) is
really very <BR>>fanciful and only by the greatest semantical stretch could
be said <BR>>to in any way describe its function. (There is a very good
post by <BR>>Delwin Fandrich about this in the archives).<BR><BR>Indeed.
Cristofori's first pianoforte was announced by Maffei as a
<BR>"gravicembalo col piano e forte" and thus the piano was born with an
<BR>illiteracy, since the proper term is "clavicembalo" and the word
<BR>"gravicembalo", though it was used by one or two composers, is
<BR>nevertheless almost certainly a corruption and is not to be found in
<BR>an Italian dictionary. As to capo d'astro, there is simply no such
<BR>thing and it has never had any meaning except in the mind of some
<BR>Steinway person long ago. The only valid phrase among the many
<BR>invalid variants is "capo tasto", which is a thing you clamp to a
<BR>guitar to transpose the open strings.<BR><BR>As to "fish", I must say I
have no objection. When I first say the <BR>arrangement in the Lipp I
was put in mind of the tail of a fish
<BR>myself.<BR><BR>JD<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></TT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>