0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
The harpsichord produces sound when?
A harpsichord produces a sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed down.
How sound is made on the harpsichord?
its homo
What is the difference between piano and a harpsichord?
1. The way it generates sound - the harpsichord plucks the string while the piano hammers it; 2. The sound - the harpsichord has a more metalic sound, a cross between guitar and harp, while the piano has a more refined soft-edged sound; There are also no louds or softs in harpsichord. The notes have always the same volume; the sound on a hapsichord also fades away faster; 3. The existence of pedals - the harpsichord has no pedals; 4. Appearance - pianos are generally paint black, or wooden, while the haprsichords usually have various paintings.
How is the harpsichord different to the piano?
A harpsichord produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed. On a grand piano, the sound is made by striking the strings with a felt covered wooden hammer.
What vibrates in a harpsichord?
What vibrates in a harpsichord are the strings when plucked by their corresponding metal pin, and the air inside the air chamber, which is there to amplify the volume of the sound.
The harpsichord soundboard is a thick piece of wood that amplifies the sound of the strings?
False
What did Hepzibah think when she heard the sound of the harpsichord?
A member of her family was going to die.
What musical group does the Harpsichord belong to?
Like the piano, the Harpsichord is a percussion instrument because the sound is produced by striking.
What can the harpsichord do?
The harpsicord is the father of the piano (forte). It is a percution instrument, because you hit the keys, but the sound wave comming out has the quality of a string instrument, which is very important for the harmonics of the harpsicord. Generaly, anything you can do on a piano, you can do on a harpsicord as well.
What resembles a piano in a appearance although the sound is produced by plucking and not striking the strings?
That would be a harpsichord.In a harpsichord, the keys are attached to quills that pluck the strings/wires rather than hammers which strike the strings/wires.
Which keyboard instrument has strings that are plucked instead of struck when the keys are pressed?
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.
What is called the identifying quality of a sound?
sound quality
