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  2. Clavichord - Wikipedia

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    Until electronic amplification in the twentieth century, it was impossible to use the quiet clavichord in anything but a small room. However, during the clavichord's heyday, evenings of music-making in the home formed the largest part of people's musical experiences. In the home the clavichord was the ideal instrument for solo keyboard music ...

  3. Martin Skowroneck - Wikipedia

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    In 1952, he was asked to restore a clavichord that had been badly damaged in the war; this led him to build his own clavichord, then instruments for other people. [5] His first harpsichord dates from 1953. [6] Skowroneck had no formal training as a builder; he learned his craft instead by inspecting existing instruments.

  4. Christian Ernst Friederici - Wikipedia

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    Both makers' clavichords had strings an octave higher in the bass register of the instrument, which Bach disliked. [6] [19] Bach may have acted as Friederici's agent; [20] Forkel wrote that Bach was selling fortbiens in 1773. [17] The Mozart family owned two instruments by Friederici: a two-manual harpsichord and possibly a clavichord. [21]

  5. Spinet - Wikipedia

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    The spinet piano, manufactured from the 1930s until recent times, was the culmination of a trend among manufacturers to make pianos smaller and cheaper. It served the purpose of making pianos available for a low price, for owners who had little space for a piano. Many spinet pianos still exist today, left over from their period of manufacture.

  6. Clavinet - Wikipedia

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    The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982.The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and responding to a keystroke by striking a given point on a tensioned string, and was designed to resemble the Renaissance-era clavichord.

  7. John Challis (harpsichord) - Wikipedia

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    John Challis (1907–1974) was an American builder of harpsichords and clavichords, at one time the only such maker of harpsichords in the United States.. His father Charles was a jeweler and watchmaker who moved his family from South Lyon, Michigan to Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1919.

  8. Joan Benson - Wikipedia

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    "The Clavichord in 20th-Century America", in Livro de Homenagem a Macario Santiago Kastner, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1992) [11] "Clavichord Technique in the Mid-Twentieth Century", Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 9–11 September 1993, Istituto per I Beni Musicali in Piemonte, Turin (1994) [12]

  9. Pedal clavichord - Wikipedia

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    With the addition of a pedal clavichord, which included a pedal keyboard for the lower notes, a clavichord could be used to practice organist repertoire. In the era of pipe organs which used hand-pumped blowers, and of churches which were only heated during church services, organists used pedal harpsichords and pedal clavichords as practice ...

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