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Description: | Digitorium or finger-exercising apparatus for keyboard players by Metzler & Co. London, c. 1885. The five keys are spring-loaded, and cannot be fully depressed without exerting considerable pressure. The digitorium was thus considered to build up the strength of aspiring keyboard players' fingers and wrists.
This apparatus was used to practice 5-finger exercises by Cecilia Edith Bessie Snow (1884-1984), on her train journeys to the London College of Music, where she was awarded a diploma in piano playing in 1908. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | Leisure | Temporal: | circa 1885 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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