Early Keyboard Instruments
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780393305203
Subjects: History & Criticism - General; Musical Instruments - Piano; Music
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.