ket’tledrum

A bra or copper kettle over the top of which is stretched a head of vellum, tightened by a ring and tuned by screws, or by cords and braces. Kettledrums are usually played in pairs with sticks having flexible handles and soft knobs. Each has a compa of a fifth; the lower may be tuned to any note from F to c, and the higher B flat to f. key. 1. A family of chords and a chain of tones é. e., a scale) finding their centre and point of rest in a certain tone (the tonic) from which the key takes its name. All keys conform to the standard for major keys, or to that for minor keys. The signature in which the number of sharps or flats of a major key is written serves as the signature for its related minor key, the tonic of which is a minor third below. The key of C has neither sharps nor flats, the key a fifth above (G) has one sharp, the key a fifth below (F) has one flat, and so the progre ion continues, forming (in a tempered instrument. Vide TEMPERAMENT) what is called the circle of fifths, as F¥ and Gb are enharmonic keys travérsing the same tones. The following ingenious chart from Riemann’s Dictionary tabulates the keys and their signatures concisely, the flats and sharps appearing in the same order on the signatures as here: eae TOPOS TA ISA Cb Gb Dp Ab Eb Oe with piano-key action, inv. by Dietz and Second, 1819. key-note, key-tone. The tonic. keyship. Tonality. key-trumpet. One with keys or valves. khal’il. Hebrew flute or oboe. Major Keys. Flats. a Sharps. ———_ DRTO Bp FC 3 4 3 om ty) GDAEB F# C# G# D# A# San 4 Ba. 2 EhsOmmrs2 Senne Flats. Minor Keys. attendant, or related k. LATED. chromatic k. sharps or flats, opposed k. extreme k. Vide RE- One with to natural A remote, unrelated k. parallelk. a. Related. b. Used of a major and a minor key with the same tonic but different signatures. 2. Old' name for clef. 3. A mechanical lever for controlling tone, whether digital or foot-key. 4. One of such keys as those on the outside ’ of a flute covering certain holes. 5. A tuning-hammer. 6. A lever controlling organ-pallets.