This meant that everything they wrote was limited to the harpsichord’s five-octave range. But then, around the year 1700, Bartolomeo Cristofori, a musical instrument technician from Padua, Italy, ...

Williams College senior Ridgway M. Banks constructed a homemade harpsichord in the cellar of his Cambridge home during vacation periods.

The film features Jose Iturbi demonstrating the harpsichord, an early form of the piano, explaining its six pedals and their functions. He showcases how the instrument can produce different tones ...

In the 18th century keyboard instruments were evolving at a rapid rate. Since first appearing in the middle of the 16th century, the harpsichord - with its mechanically-plucked strings held at low ...

Inscribed on the nameboard of an ottavino spinet (a small tabletop, or even laptop, harpsichord) dated 1710 and now in the Russell Collection of musical ...

In the exceptional setting of the Cour de l'Intendant at the Hôtel de la Marine, harpsichordist Alessio Zanfardino and actor ...

History The piano is a keyboard instrument descended from early instruments like the clavichord and harpsichord, which used strings inside the instrument's body which were plucked or struck. But it's ...

The harpsichord made a short, staccato sound as the strings were plucked inside the instrument. If a Baroque composer wanted a longer sound on the harpsichord, he would have had to add ornaments ...