keyboard instrument
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His 55-minute set of variations, his last major work — and his largest — for solo piano is a compendium of what the composer could do and what the keyboard instrument of 1825 could do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
“I Dilettosi Fiori,” a program of 14th-century music performed by Italian musician Corina Marti on flutes and clavisimbalum, an early keyboard instrument.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2016
Indeed, though China in the 1600s had numerous rich musical traditions that employed both domestic and imported instruments, it had nothing resembling the clavichord, a stringed keyboard instrument and predecessor of the piano.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2015
It was Cage's way of making the keyboard instrument sound more percussive by using screws, nuts and weather stripping to mute some piano strings and alter the pitch or timbre of others.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2012
On the platform with him was the little keyboard instrument with which he would relay questions to Billy from the crowd.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
