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clavichord

[klav-i-kawrd] / ˈklæv ɪˌkɔrd /


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Jazzman Camp wields his gallused, honky-tonk style on an Emory Cook record called The New Clavichord.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly the after-dinner music in Pennsylvania Republican politics last week became as harmonious as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord.

From Time Magazine Archive

The program included one of the sel- dom-heard English suites, selections from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oldest, the Clavichord, as a rule, had two strings to every note, set in motion by a “tangent” striking them from below.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

He also could play the piano with force and finish, read well at sight and knew nearly the whole of Bach's "Well Tempered Clavichord."

From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Brower, Harriette




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