Crescendo

Crescendo 1. *pyramid piano by Hofrat Bauer of Berlin ca. 1780, with a device for transposing by shifting the keyboard, a 5-oct. compass, and 3 pedals for controlling the dynamics. See also: royal crescendo; 2. a combined piano-harpsichord by Pehr Lindholm of Stockholm, in 1781, with 5 variations of tone (176). Sachs, Curt. Reallexikon der Musikinstrumente. Berlin, 1913.