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harpsichords (noun) - a musical instrument resembling a piano, but it produces sound by plucking strings with plectrums
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And rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts.
Most spinets are smaller than regular harpsichords.
All of these harpsichords still survive.
This temperament is used mainly for tuning harpsichords.
More substantial harpsichords contain more than one choir of strings.
Francesco is also known as a maker of harpsichords.
Early harpsichords were evidently small in both pitch range and string length.
He was also a maker of harpsichords and organs.
His harpsichords included examples with aluminium frames and electronic amplification.
The song inspired more pop music producers to use harpsichords in their arrangements.
Other Italian harpsichords employed plectra of leather.
This system was also applied by Cristofori to harpsichords.
His harpsichords have often served as models for modern reproductions by Martin Skowroneck and others.
Forget has added the indigenous Canadian ephemera to the insects traditionally painted on Flemish harpsichords.
A few historic harpsichords from the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Both Weeks and Mireille Lagacé have recorded on his harpsichords.
Italian harpsichords are ideal continuo-instruments.
Aside from organs, he made harpsichords and clavichords.
Harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments excl . pianos.
Art historian, specialized in harpsichords.
Pianos, including automatic pianos ; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments.
There is also a large collection of concert keyboards, pianos and harpsichords.
Curiously, some of the earliest harpsichords for which we have evidence are clavicytheria.
For instance, he added various forms of decoration, or even entire extra keyboards to harpsichords.
Harpsichords vary in size and shape, but all have the same basic mechanism.
No. She just liked to go around kissing harpsichords.
Modern harpsichords frequently employ plectra made with plastic, specifically the plastic known as acetal.
Moreover, there were very few makers producing harpsichords in America.
Dulcken 's harpsichords are a development of Ruckers designs and have a larger range.
Sonatas and concerto for harpsichord solo, Concerto for two harpsichords.
This recording was made on two harpsichords in the Musée de la musique in Paris,.
Kirnberger, The Kirnberger III scale is used mainly for tuning harpsichords.
The Flemish harpsichords were often elaborately painted and decorated, and bore Latin mottoes.
He was the father of Johann Adolph Hass, who also made harpsichords and clavichords.
Pianos, harpsichords and the like Harps.
In England, the Kirkman and Shudi firms produced sophisticated harpsichords of great power and sonority.
Original French harpsichords of the 17th century are rare.
Lengths of the longer 8 ' strings of some well known historical harpsichords.
The chapel also houses a C. Bechstein piano, two harpsichords by Robert Goble and a portable digital piano.
These specifications are typical for 18th-century French harpsichords.
Harpsichords figure prominently, while oboes, French horns, and string quartets are also common.
Concerto in A minor for 4 harpsichords.
The version for two harpsichords likely originated in or around 1736.
Initially working alone, he made on average 12 double-manual harpsichords each year.
The earliest complete harpsichords still preserved come from Italy, the oldest specimen being dated to 1521.
Since 1945, there has been a return to the construction and sound of early harpsichords.
Thus, for example, many historical Italian harpsichords had the disposition 2 x 8.
He continued to work with her until 1940, particularly during concerts with two harpsichords.
You know, Gomez, these harpsichords are hard to build. Here.
He travelled to England in 1750 to sell two of his harpsichords.
