MIDDLE C • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Middle C

... heard, is to be found in any Physical Laboratory. That these tones really vibrate "sympathetically" may be proved by striking ff [Transcriber's Note: Music example indicates sf] this note [Music: C2 With damper pedal] and then pressing down very lightly the keys of G and E just above middle C, thus removing the individual dampers of these notes. In a quiet room the tones are distinctly audible. For another rewarding experiment of the same nature, see the Introduction to the first volume of Arthur Whiting's Pedal Studies and the ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

... vigor; but to be nearly refined without being quite refined is as harrowing as singing just a little off the key. To be far off the key is to be in another key, but to smite at a note and muff it is excruciation. Better far to drone middle C than to aim at high C and miss it ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes