Nail piano

Nail piano (Ger.: Nagelklavier), a transformation of the *nail violin by a teacher named Träger of Bernberg, Saxony, in 1791, into a continuously bowed instr. controlled by a keyboard. 4 rows of iron nails were set horizontally into an oblong block of wood. The bow, a belt of resin-coated linen, was rotated by means of a treadle (89, 176). Sort by:DefaultTitleDateAuthorAscendingDescending Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition. London, 1954. Sachs, Curt. Reallexikon der…