clavichord

A Clavinet looks like an electric keyboard, but it is an electro-mechanical string instrument originally developed for the performance of classical harpsichord and clavichord music.

Technological change is in fact the subject of your favorite page, the middle page of a rondo that Bach wrote in 1781 as a farewell to his long-serving clavichord.

She finds new textures in her voice, and its acrobatics are less flashy and more delicate, against an intricate world conjured up out of harps, music boxes and the clavichord.

During the boredom of her abandonment her only distractions were the clavichord lessons at siesta time and the letters from her children.

Rodney, the protagonist of “Early Music,” purchases an antiquated clavichord that will financially ruin his family.