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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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An obsolete stringed instrument resembling a harp laid prostrate, the strings being played by quills operated by keys like those of a piano-forte. Harpoon-rocket. The harpsichord is believed to have been first made by Hans Rucken, in Germany, about 1510. Used in public festivals in Italy, 1522. Improved by Vincentino, 1555. Vertical form invented by Rigoli of Florence, 1620. Pepys, in his Diary (1661), speaks of the harpsichon at Captain Allen's house, where he saw his dear Mrs. Rebecca. The spinet was a similar instrument with one wire for each note, and, like the harpsichord, was played with quills on jacks, operated by keys. The clavicytherium may be considered the original of the whole train of stringed instruments whose strings were mechanically vibrated. See pianoforte. The harpsichord introduced two strings to a note, and preceded the piano, from which it differed specially in the mode of vibrating the strings. It consisted of a harp whose wire strin