Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditals
Literary usage of Ditals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1821)
"... the more, as the order or succession in which the ditals are to be employed
to produce the half notes or semitones, when the same occur in the music, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"The patent was for the application of certain pieces of mechanism called 'ditals'
or 'thumb-keys,' in distinction from ' pedals ' or ' foot-keys ' ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"The patent was for the application of certain pieces of mechanism called 'ditals'
or 'thumb-keys,' in distinction from ' pedals ' or ' foot-keys ' ..."
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