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
For centuries, people had been looking for a keyboard instrument that would hit bells.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2018
“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
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
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