clavichord
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A Clavinet looks like an electric keyboard, but it is an electro-mechanical string instrument originally developed for the performance of classical harpsichord and clavichord music.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2022
Technological change is in fact the subject of your favorite page, the middle page of a rondo that Bach wrote in 1781 as a farewell to his long-serving clavichord.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022
Newsom expanded her own instrumentation to include the clavichord, harpsichord and Mellotron.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2015
The gifts included such European curiosities as mechanical clocks, religious objects, and a musical instrument: the clavichord.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2015
They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day, and even clavichord practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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