by a harpsichord maker in Italy.
A stringed keyboard instrument, such as a harpsichord.
I can tune the harpsichord as well as play it.
A small, legless rectangular harpsichord popular in the16th and17th centuries. Often used in the plural.
After playing a little on the harpsichord, he asked for a theme.
One piece was the harpsichord part for the Concerto in G and the other was the Prelude in G major.
The piano was perfected in the early eighteenth century by a harpsichord maker in Italy (though musicologists point out several Previous instances of the instrument).
The larger zither family includes such instruments as the Aeolian harp, autoharp, cimbalom, dulcimer, koto, and even the clavichord, harpsichord, and piano.
a playable lie in golf; the baseball fan reached out and caught a foul that was judged playable; the ball field was playable; harpsichord music is readily playable- .
In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century.
The harpsichord with its bright, vigorous tone was the favorite instrument for supporting the bass of the small orchestra of the period and for concert use, but the character of the tone could not be varied save by mechanical or structural devices.
