Before X-ray we used to talk glibly, and sometimes I suspect without justification, of differences of demitones and half demitones in percussion of the chest and slight enlargements of the heart.
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Demitone
//ˈdɛmɪtəʊn//
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I am somewhat annoyed to be obliged to transpose everything for this concert because of the G. Gaveau harpsichord, which is constructed a demitone too low.
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If we play the two lines on a piano, it becomes clear after a few repetitions (that is, once a distinction between the acoustic shape and the background is established) that what we actually hear in the foreground is a succession of fragments made up of a repeating demitone (here, B C B C B C, etc.).
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I would speak to you, I have seen this opulence banishing by shades, by demitones!
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