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music-glossary: metronome

 
 1.194 metronome
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 ES: metrónomo, I: metronomo, F: métronome, D: Metronom, NL: metronoom,
 DK: metronom, S: metronom, FI: metronomi.
 
    Device used to indicate the exact tempo of a piece.
 
    Invented ca.  1812 by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkler of Amsterdam, but
 takes its name from Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, who copied the device, added
 a scale of tempo divisions, and patented it as a ‘metronome’.  The
 inevitable lawsuit that followed acknowledged Winkler as the creator,
 but by then Mälzel had already sold many of them, and people had taken
 to calling it a Mälzel Metronome.
 
 
 See also
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    metronome mark.
 

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