Clavier Synonyms

klə-vîr', klā'vē-ər, klăv'ē-

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Synonyms for Clavier

keyboard
(Music) A row of levers that are depressed with the fingers to produce or modulate the sound of an instrument, such as a piano or organ.
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harpsichord
A stringed musical instrument with a keyboard, often with two manuals: the strings are plucked by points of leather or quill when the keys are pressed, producing short, abrupt tones
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clavichord
An early keyboard instrument with a soft sound produced by small brass wedges striking horizontal strings.
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piano
The definition of a piano is a large keyboard instrument with keys that strike wires which are stretched a metal frame inside a wooden case, or a piece of music that is written to be performed with a soft volume.
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klavier
a stringed instrument that has a keyboard
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piano keyboard
a bank of keys on a musical instrument
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fingerboard
(Music) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
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musical-instrument
A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
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  • In the 18th century the abbe Banier, in his Mythologie et la fable pliquees par l'histoire, was frankly Euhemeristic; other leading Euhemerists were Clavier, Sainte-Croix, Raoul Rochette, Em.

  • Astonishingly, the Six Partitas for Clavier were the first works bach published after more than twenty years of composing.

  • The picture shows Ed Nasser at the clavier of the 52 bell carillon in Washington National Cathedral, USA.

  • The same comments apply to the attempts sometimes made to fill out the bare places in 18thcentury clavier music. There is no doubt that such filling out was often done on a second harpsichord with stops of a very light tone; but, if it cannot be done on the modern pianoforte in a touch so light as to avoid confusion between it and the notes actually written as essential to the design, it certainly ought not to be done at all.

  • In the time of Bach such writing was beautifully suited to enliven the dry glitter of the harpsichord, and Bach's duets for clavier and violin seem to have been sometimes played as trios with a violoncello playing from the clavier bass.

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