Assertion: harpsichord's key | /r/HasProperty | depressed
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text: When the keys on a harpsichord are depressed, the strings are plucked, rather than struck, with either quills or leather picks called plectra.
text: This is essentially what happens on the inside of a piano when the keys are depressed.
text: When the key is depressed, the tangent strikes the string, dividing it into two parts.
text: The harpsichord is a keyboard instrument that produces its sound by plucking the strings with a quill when a key is depressed.
text: The pivoted piece (which in a modern piano would be called a jack and should not be confused with the jack in a harpsichord) lifts an intermediate lever when the key is depressed.
text: When the key is pressed completely down, the jack tilts and disengages itself from the intermediate lever, which then falls back, permitting the hammer to fall most of the way back to its rest position, even while the key is still depressed.