KATONAH, N.Y., July 15 â?? For musical instruments, and a lot of other industrial tools, the 18th century was an age of inventions. Restless tinkerers looked for new shapes and functions, building and designing in a spirit that we today have more or less turned over to electronic composers. Mozartâ??s famous clarinet pieces, for example, cannot be played exactly as written, because for him the instrument was less a single, identifiable device than a series of experiments in size and range.
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