Rameau wrote three books of Pièces de clavecin for the harpsichord. The first, Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, was published in 1706; the second, Pièces...

A harpsichord (Italian: clavicembalo, French: clavecin, German: Cembalo; Spanish: clavecín, Portuguese: cravo, Russian: клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin)...

The clavecin électrique (or clavessin électrique) was a musical instrument invented in 1759 by Jean-Baptiste Thillaie Delaborde, a French Jesuit priest...

The lautenwerck (also spelled lautenwerk), alternatively called lute-harpsichord (lute-clavier) or keyboard lute, is a European keyboard instrument of...

variety of stringed instruments. In other languages the instrument is called clavecin vertical (French), Klaviziterium (German), cembalo verticale (Italian)...

Cinquième prelude from L'art de toucher le clavecin, performed by Robert Schröter on a harpsichord tuned in equal temperament Cinquième prelude The same...

Sound sample of a hurdy-gurdy Problems playing this file? See media help. The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned...

of a large suitcase. It is sometimes called by its French equivalent, clavecin brisé, which means "broken harpsichord," or by the German term, Reisecembalo...

The claviorgan (also known as the claviorganum, claviorgano, clavecin organisee) is a combination of a stringed instrument (usually a keyboard instrument)...

children played the clavecin, under the instruction of François Couperin. The young Mozart came to Paris and wrote two sonatas for clavecin and violin which...