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  • n  half of a semitone

  • But it was the quarter-tone pianothe piano of tomorrow, according to Pianist Earthwhich amazed.
  • Any young jazz player can certainly stand some formal polishing of his delayed triplets, skimmed notes, quarter-tone vibratos and other "words" in the jazz vocabulary.
  • Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano.

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