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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No, it is a stringed instrument, a type of keyboard instrument; one of the many precursors to the modern forte-piano. Its strings are layed out, similar to a piano, but the strings are not struck with a hammer, they are plucked with a quill.
The instrument families are: brass (trumpet, trombone, ect.,) woodwinds, (flute and all instruments with a reed, including the sax,) strings (violin, viola, etc,.) percussion (any instrument that is struck or shaken - drums, bells, maracas, etc.,) and keyboard: piano, harpischord, organ, ect.
Bartolomeo Cristofori The inventor.. He is said to be joining harpischord makers in their time. It was about 1720s..
No. By the romantic era, orchestras were so large that a harpsichord couldn't even be heard.
"With every chicken there comes blood." Andrew Harpischord. You must die...
A crescendo can be brought out by a harpsichord, however it is a more abrupt change of dynamics than in a piano.
He learnt from his father and his uncles, they also taught him how to play the organ and the harpischord. His father and one of his uncles were famous musicians, his father - Johann Amrosius Bach and one of his uncles - Johann Christoph Bach a famous organist. His brother, also names Johann Christoph Bach, taught him how to play the calvichord when he was about 10 years old.
a musical instrument? a wind instrument? a string instrument? a percussion instrument?
A secondary instrument is a instrument whose sound is in comparison to the main instrument. It also can be a back up instrument.
It is a brass instrument.
Yes, any instrument that you blow through is a wind instrument.