Early Keyboard Instruments (The New Grove Musical Instrument Series)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 1989
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780393305159
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.