Crossword-Solution: CLAVICEMBALO
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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This made it possible to use one string for several different notes, and explains why the clavichord or clavicembalo needed comparatively few strings.
These instruments were called _bundfrei_, "unbound," in opposition to the _clavicembalo_, which was called _gebunden_, or "bound." The harpsichord was much more complicated than the clavichord, in that the latter ceased to sound when the key which moved the bridge was released, whereas the harpsichord required what is called a "damper" to stop the sound when the key came up; once the string was touched by the quill, all command of the tone by the key was lost.
The singing had a bald accompaniment of an orchestra placed behind the scenes and consisting of a clavicembalo, or harpsichord, a viola da gamba, a theorbo, or large lute, and a flute, the last being used to imitate Pan-pipes in the hands of one of the characters.
They had organs, lutes, viols, lyres, harps, citherns, horns, and a kind of primitive piano known as the clavichord or the clavicembalo.
CHAPTER XXXIII--STORY OF THE PIANOFORTE 392-403 Origin of pianoforte--spinet--clavicembalo--Mozart's grand piano; Cristofori's design of action--Érard action--iron frame--Chickering; Steinway improvements.