Tech’nic, Technique’

(Ger. Zech’nik.) All that relates to the purely mechanical part of vocal or instrumental performance.—In some German works treating on pfte.-technique, a distinc tion is made between Mecha’nik (the merely mechanical drill of fingers and wrist, apart from its application in playing), and Technik (the acquired skill and dexterity in actual performance). Tech’nicon, A finger-gymnasium, or apparatus for training and strengthening the hands and fingers of players on keyboard instes; inv. in. 1889 by J. Brotherhood of Montreal, Canada. ‘Tech nip hore, Earlier name of the (improved) Virgil Practice-Clavier (q. v.) Tede’sco,-a (It.) German...4lla te desca, in the German style; ‘‘ the term tudesca’, says Bulow, has reference to waltz-rhythm, and invites changes of time”. Tovsied from Grove. J...Lira tedesca, burdy-gurdy.