He emphasized the harmonic sonority of the diminished seventh with upper-neighbor appoggiatura. His finger staccato was at the time unequaled, as was his orchestral sonority. He was less attentive to textual placement and clarity than to the overall expressive sonority. Roman prose developed its sonority, dignity, and rhythm in persuasive speech. In the sonority hierarchy, all sounds higher than fricatives are sonorants. In England, the Kirkman and Shudi firms produced sophisticated harpsichords of great power and sonority. Sonority hierarchies vary somewhat in which sounds are grouped together. Gut strings produce a sonority far different from metal, generally described as softer and sweeter. Gut strings produce a sonority far different from steel, generally described as softer and sweeter. Diphthongs are all centering diphthongs with falling sonority. However, grounding sonority in amplitude is not universally accepted. This sonority, musicologist Richard Taruskin points out, is essentially Germanic in effect. The sonority natural to Vedic chanting is enhanced in Ghana. This renovation deformed and damaged the music structure and thus, its sonority. But the fact that he played by pinching lacked sonority.