Harpsichord: alternatives and connections

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…

A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is t…

An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…

An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…

A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys whi…

Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendi…

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silve…

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp;…

A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudd…

Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal mu…