They are keyboard instruments like a piano, but the strings are plucked rather than hammered. You could probably purchase a modern one form a specialist instrument maker but you would see old ones in a museum.
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Frank Hubbard has written: 'Harpsichord regulating and repairing' -- subject(s): Construction, Harpsichord 'Harpsichord Kits'
The harpsichord is originally from Italy and dates back to the 16th century.
Johann Sebastian Bach played the harpsichord!!
You can't use dynamics or timbre on a harpsichord, but you can on a piano
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Fernando Valenti has written: 'The harpsichord' -- subject(s): Harpsichord
A harpsichord produces a sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed down.
the harpsichord comes from many countries in Europe like Italy for example.
The piano replaced the harpsichord as the most dominant instrument.
A harpsichord was the keyboard instrument before piano fortes, the modern piano. Unlike a piano, where hammars hit the strings, a harpsichord's strings were plucked by quills, or "jacks." Harpsichords were used by Bach and other composers of that time period.