Also available electronically as a PDF file or files (requires Adobe Actobat Reader). The harpsichord and the clavichord represent the two most important types of ...

Ypsilanti is not well known for the building of old-fashioned musical instruments such as the harpsichord and clavichord, but one man from Ypsilanti became famous for his work on such instruments. He ...

Jazz once meant improvised music. Now jazzmen have taken to improvising musical instruments. Some of the weirdest recorded jazz sounds currently around come from a “gooped up” harpsichord and a ...

The harpsichord went out when the piano came in. Nobody at the time seemed very sorry: the piano was easier to play, its notes carried further, and it had greater range of tone. But the harpsichord ...