Crossword-Solution: CLAVIERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

She turned back, though muttering against the overruling of her lady's commands by a creature like a bat, who could probably send other powers than a decent maid to bring claviers.

Claviers, dulcimers, spinets, and harpsichords, belonging once upon a time to Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, are in this famous collection.

Bach was already familiar with his Claviers with hammer action, and indeed had offered useful criticism of which Silbermann had taken advantage.

The church plate (_i.e._, chalice, paten, etc.) is cleaned by the clergy also, viii., _claviers_, the keyboard of the organ ix., "_great breves as they wrote them of yore_": a breve is the longest note in music, and was formerly square in shape.

One such instrument, in which the strings were _struck by_ little wooden _hammers_, was called the Dulcimer; another, in which the strings were sounded by _plucking_ with the fingers or by a quill, was called the Psaltery; and from these two were developed the earliest instruments of the piano class, called by the general name of “Claviers,” from _Clavis_, a key.