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The keyboard that whispers, perfected so quietly the room next door never knew.
means A small, soft-toned keyboard instrument in which pressing a key drives a brass blade called a tangent up against the string, sounding and stopping the note at once.
from From the medieval Latin clavichordium, fusing clavis, 'key,' with chorda, 'string' — itself borrowed from Greek khordē, the gut of a stringed instrument. So the name simply says what it is: keys upon strings. That same clavis, the Latin 'key,' is the root that unlocks clavier, clavicle (the 'little key' bone), and even the conclave, a meeting locked away 'with a key.'
- touch sensitive
- First keyboard where pressing harder changed the volume
- bebung
- Wiggle a key to make notes vibrate, like vibrato
- too quiet
- Nearly inaudible in concert, so it stayed home
- bach loved it
- His favorite instrument for private practice and teaching
- struck strings
- Brass blades called tangents both sound and stop strings
ruckers family instruments — flemish makers of the 16th-17th centuries whose clavichords are in major museums
bach wtc clavichord — j.s. bach composed the well-tempered clavier partly for clavichord performance, köthen 1722
silbermann clavichord berlin — gottfried silbermann's 1730s instruments at berlin musikinstrumenten-museum