Hey, what's that sound: Harpsichord

Once the star of renaissance and baroque music, this older brother of the piano has found a new home in hip-hop and popWhat is it? The simplest explanation would be that it's a piano, but with the strings plucked rather than struck, although the harpsichord actually predates the piano.Who uses it? Chiefly associated with renaissance and baroque music, Bach remains arguably the master composer of the harpsichord. In modern classical music, Iannis Xenakis, Philip Glass and particularly György L...

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