Keyboard instrument
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A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards,
The piano, a common keyboard instrument
Hammond organ with part of a Leslie speaker shown
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Mosaic of the Female Musicians
Clavichord
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The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was mostly used as a p
Keyboard instrument
…historical musicology, where it means an instrument whose identity cannot be firmly established. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the early piano competed, and the same piece might be played on more than one. Hence, in a phrase such as "Mozart excelled as a keyboard player…
1977 unfretted clavichord by Keith Hill
The "Lépante" fretted clavichord, Musée de la Musique, Paris
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Detail of the clavichord at Museu de la Música de Barcelona