| 单词 |
ravalement |
| 释义 |
‖ ravalement, n. Mus.|ravalmɑ̃|
[Fr., orig. in the phr. à ravalement (A. Bemetzrieder 1771, in Leçons de clavecins i. 13), f. ravaler to bring down, restore.]
The action or an instance of altering and extending the range of a keyboard instrument by rebuilding; hence, an instrument which has been altered in this way.
[1940C. Sachs Hist. Mus. Instruments xvi. 376 When musicians after 1700 had no more use for this obsolete transposition, the two keyboards were shifted and completed to coincide. The instrument became what the French call à ravalement or ‘let down’.] 1959R. Russell Harpsichord & Clavichord iii. 48 Ravalement was applied to virginals as to harpsichords. 1961A. Baines Mus. Instruments Through the Ages iv. 82 Reconstructions usually involved the lengthening and widening of the instruments,..an operation known in France as ravalement. 1974Early Music Jan. 41/1 Many of the instruments thought to have been made by the famous 17th century Flemish makers are in fact not even ‘ravalements’, but complete 18th-century fakes. 1986Ibid. Aug. 450/1 Gilbert, playing on an 18th-century French ravalement of a 1671 Couchet, is more measured. |
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