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Temperament, in music, the accommodation or adjustment of the imperfect sounds by transferring a part of their defects to the more perfect ones, in order to remedy, in some degree, the false intervals of those instruments, the sounds of which are fixed; as the organ, harpsichord, piano-forte, etc.
Both are abbreviations of Cristofori's original name for his invention: gravicembalo col piano e forte, "harpsichord with soft and loud". [26] [27] The term fortepiano is somewhat specialist in its connotations, and does not preclude using the more general term piano to designate the same instrument. Thus, usages like "Cristofori invented the ...
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.
A clavicytherium is a harpsichord with the soundboard and strings mounted vertically facing the player, the same space-saving principle as an upright piano. [10] In a clavicytherium, the jacks move horizontally without the assistance of gravity, so that clavicytherium actions are more complex than those of other harpsichords.
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Piano Concerto No. 2 (1968–69) Harpsichord Concerto (1951–52) Ballade for piano and orchestra; Petite symphonie concertante for piano, harp, harpsichord and two string orchestras (1945) Bohuslav Martinů. Piano Concerto No. 1 (1925) Concertino for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, Op. 173 (1926) Piano Concerto No. 2 (1934) Concertino ...
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Concerto for harpsichord (or pianoforte), two violins and a cello in E flat major, op.11 No.3 (first printed in 1771) Concerto for harpsichord (or pianoforte), two violins and a cello in D major, op.11 No.4 (first printed in 1771) Concerto for harpsichord (or pianoforte), two violins and a cello in G major, op.11 No.5 (first printed in 1771)