What is the harpsich me?

Harpsichord is a string instrument of the keyboard, different from Clavichord and the piano by twitching rather than hit, strings. Sometimes the name Harpsichord is used to indicate spinet and virgin and also on harp. The first known link to the instrument appeared in 1397 and became an important solo instrument and was also used in chamber music, orchestral music and opera. First, the harpsichord can have two keyboards or manuals than one of the piano. Second, Harpsichord has a smaller range, typical modern tools that have five octaves from F1 to F6 to seven plus piano octave, A0-C8. In addition, the maximum dynamics of harpsichord is softer than the piano - CreScendos, DecRescendos and accents are impossible - and the ITS notes have very little maintenance.

If the path of harp has two manuals, the upper manual will have two sets of strings, while the bottom has three sets of chains. Stopping or registers are used to change chain sets, either using a lever, knob or foot pedal. The clutch connectsManuals, so playing the lower also connects the upper part. The upper manual is equipped with a shock absorber that changes the quality of the sound at work, giving him a sound like a guitar.

Harpsichord was in the largest heights in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The well-known favorite are Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg concerts, as well as the works of Antonin Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, François Couperin, Henry Purcell, Georg Friederich Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Domenico Scarlatti.

Purchase Harpsichord characters in Ripley's Game , while Harpsichord is one of the instruments in the the Queen Alexandre desplat, John Williams's The Screaming Woman and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Mystery . The recorded harpsichordists include Ansi Mattila, Zuzana Ruzickov, Wand Landowska and Trevor Pinnock.