Crossword-Solution: ZUMPE
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| Clue | Answers |
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| ENGLISH pianoforte manufacturer | 3 answers |
| PIANOFORTE manufacturer | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ZUMPE (5)
Until more conclusive information can be obtained, I must be permitted to regard a London maker, but a German by birth, Johannes Zumpe, as the inventor of the instrument.
Somewhat later we hear of Zumpe, who was apparently struck with the idea of adapting the pianoforte hammer to the square-shaped clavichord, which was not deep enough to take the Silbermann action, thus producing a veritable square pianoforte.
Zumpe’s device contained no provision for escapement, which fault was afterwards corrected by the celebrated inventor Stein.
Neither Silbermann nor Zumpe can be said to have perfected any special improvements in the form of hammer construction, and we find that the revolutionary genius, John Broadwood the First, and also Sebastian Erard, were the pioneers in the work of adapting the hammers to the more strenuous styles of playing that the improved touch mechanism invented by them permitted and encouraged.
Johann Zumpe carried the hammer-clavier to England,[100] where it was played by German executants, and brought into repute.