Early Keyboard Instruments
Series: New Grove Musical Instrument Series
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: August 1989
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780393025545
First sentence: The harpsichord is a string keyboard instrument, distinguished from the clavichord and the piano by the fact that its strings are plucked rather than struck and characterized by an elongated wing shape like that of a grand piano.