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Examples of harpsichord
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He played the cello and harpsichord in addition to the oboe and later the organ.
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Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata in B minor for flute or recorder and harpsichord.
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She played and composed for the harpsichord and the piano, and lived in Passy.
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Here he tackles Bach, with a 10-piece string ensemble including a harpsichord.
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She offered no hint Bach wrote the work for the delicate-sounding harpsichord.
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The harpsichord had been impounded by customs and only released at the last minute.
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Schrader is equally at home in front of a harpsichord, organ, piano, or fortepiano.
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I love the Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord and two chamber orchestras.
From the guardian.co.uk
By track five's foot-tappy harpsichord twangs, the mood is absolutely jaunty.
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- A clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots
- (harpsichordist) someone who plays the harpsichord
- A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.
- A plucked-string keyboard musical instrument. The strings are made to vibrate by being plucked by plectra, or picks, or raven's quill or leather.
- A stringed keyboard instrument in the shape of a wing. Sound is produced when a key is depressed causing a jack to rise pluck the corresponding string causing it to vibrate.
- An instrument like a piano used mostly in Mozart operas
- Its shape is similar to that of a Piano but having a much different sound. Each string is plucked by a quill plectrum. It is closely related to a Virginal or a Spinet and eventually lost popularity after the Fortepiano became popular around 1800.
- Actually a harp turned on its side and played by means of quills or leather tongues operated by a keyboard. It was the most common keyboard instrument of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and is again being built today in increasing numbers.
- (Musical Instrument) First made in England in the fifteenth century but very few examples survive earlier than the eighteenth century. This stringed musical instrument is enclosed in a case like the later grand piano. ...
