clavichord

• “They had organs, lutes, viols, lyres, harps, citherns, horns, and a kind of primitive piano known as the clavichord or the clavicembalo.”

  The Age of the Reformation

• “But through the assistance of a servant, the boy obtained an instrument, which he kept in the garret; and there, when opportunity offered, with the strings of his "clavichord" so covered with pieces of cloth as to deaden the sound, he practised music until he became a proficient in harmony.”

  The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth.

• “The fortepiano timbre didn't reveal any new secrets in the solo portions — Bach's writing is still very much modeled on harpsichord/clavichord virtuosity — but when providing a rippling accompaniment to the whole ensemble, the softer, subtler touch made for an invitingly plush sound.”

  Authentication keys

• “The book reaches its poignant finale through lovingly conjured attention to detail, when one of the couple's grandchildren attempts to connect with a fragmented inheritance: "All there is from that world is a locket / showing the infant Mozart playing silence / on a tiny clavichord, behind cracked glass.”

  The Guardian: Poetry: in brief – reviews

• “So, for all the haunting loveliness Kibbey found in an uncredited transcription of Rameau's "L'Egyptienne," the crispness and clarity of the clavichord original was lost.”

  The Washington Post: Harpist Bridget Kibbey creates an air of enchantment at Phillips

• “Tureck performed and recorded extensively, playing piano as well as harpsichord, clavichord, and organ.”

  Personal Information for Rosalyn Tureck

• “Elsewhere we find a dislocated box-drawer with the letters "CO" (containing two recorders), a jingle ring, a lute, three recorders, two pears, a container of candied fruits (with two spoons), a clavichord, a shin-guard and the golden spur of the Gonfaloniere”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Note 225: The 15th-century (Italian) treatise by Johannis Gallici, the Liber notabilis musicae, includes an image of "the first stage of the conversion of the monochord into the clavichord.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “The clavichord, meanwhile, represented an updated version of the monochord,225 reflecting innovations in the compositional methods of counterpoint and musical notation that enabled a player to intone the "perfect consonances" of multiple voices simultaneously.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “At Urbino, a clavichord rests on the bench below Federico's intarsiated portrait; "strung" with inlaid metal wires, it suggests that the duke did indeed encourage guests to touch the intarsia.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

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