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Is the harpischord an instrument

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Yep, its an instrument that was introduced a while back before the piano, its like a piano only smaller and doesn't have as many keys, it can't go as high or low in pitch and doesn't make as a nice sound to be honest. Piano's were a massive improvement, hope this helped.

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