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n. A keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by means of quills or plectrums.

n. An instrument with a piano-like keyboard, which produces sound by plucking the strings

n. A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

n. A stringed musical instrument in use in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, which in its form and in the arrangement of the keyboard and strings resembled a piano, but in which the tone was produced by the plucking or snapping of the strings by leather or quill points, which were set in jacks connected by levers with the keys.

n. a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots

""The harpsichord was a wedding gift from a grateful employer, I suppose?""

klavier    clavier   

vis-à-vis harpsichord    spinet    cembalo   

spinet    pair of virginals    virginal   

harpsichordist   

viola    pianoforte    mandolin    cello    spinet    cornet    lute    accordion    tambourine    violin