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The harpsichord is a string instrument, much like the piano in size, shape and the way you play it (for harpsichords with one keyboard). You press keys that will engange a simple mechanism which will pluck (not hammer) the strings and produce the note's sound. It was invented around the XVI century rose to popularity and then fell as the piano gained life.

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