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    Harpsichords and Clavichords
    Harpsichords and Clavichords
    Harpsichords and Clavichords
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    Harpsichords and Clavichords

    By Cynthia A. Hoover

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Harpsichords and Clavichords - Cynthia A. Hoover

      Project Gutenberg's Harpsichords and Clavichords, by Cynthia A. Hoover

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      Title: Harpsichords and Clavichords

      Author: Cynthia A. Hoover

      Release Date: May 13, 2012 [EBook #39690]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPSICHORDS AND CLAVICHORDS ***

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      CYNTHIA A. HOOVER

      DIVISION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

      NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

      Harpsichords and Clavichords

      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS

      CITY OF WASHINGTON

      1969

      Cover: Virginal by Giovanni Battista Boni, 1617 (see pages 22-25)

      Photo: Robert Lautman

      For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office

      Washington, D.C. 20402 Price 40 cents

      Harpsichords and Clavichords

      The harpsichord and the clavichord represent the two most important types of stringed keyboard instruments used from the 15th through the 18th centuries. By the 19th century, the piano had become the most important domestic keyboard instrument.

      In this booklet are described a few of the restored Smithsonian harpsichords and clavichords that are occasionally on exhibit in the Hall of Musical Instruments or in use in the series of concerts sponsored by the Division of Musical Instruments. Models showing how the sound is produced on these instruments are also on exhibit.

      A complete list of the keyboard collection is found in A Checklist of Keyboard Instruments at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, 1967), which is available from the Division of Musical Instruments, Smithsonian Institution, Washington ,D.C. 20560.

      Harpsichords

      The harpsichord and its smaller relatives, the virginal and the spinet, have strings that are plucked. The harpsichord is wing-shaped, most virginals and spinets are either rectangular or polygonal.

      When the harpsichord key is pressed, a wooden jack is

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