Was something wrong with Beethoven's metronome?

[Blue Train]

A paper on Beethoven's metronome.

http://www.ams.org/notices/201309/rnoti-p1146.pdf

Edited September 18, 2013 by Blue Train

[Chuck Nessa]

Question as old as Ludwig.

[Bill Nelson]

Could be the battery contact in Wig's ear trumpet.

[king ubu]

  On 9/19/2013 at 2:48 AM, Bill Nelson said:

Could be the battery contact in Wig's ear trumpet.

Ya know, they had wigs with integrated metronomes back then ... and George Washington had false teeth of wood (and his mouth emitted a rotten foulish stench) ... but then wood was good in a way, since it did help Ludwig van catch some sounds, putting a piece of it into his mouth, the other end on the piano (guess if he had wooden teeth, too, it would have been to no avail, but how wood, ahm, I know?)