0 an early keyboard instrument in which the strings are hit by pieces of metal when the keys are pressed --
Aside from organs, he made harpsichords and clavichords.
Some clavichords have been built with a single pair of strings for each note.
There is speculation that some works written for organ may have been intended for pedal clavichord.
A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.
It is speculated that this was a clavichord or harpsichord.
Jeans was also an exponent of the clavichord, which she preferred to play above all other keyboard instruments.
Finally, he was among the first major keyboard composers in history and the first to focus equally on both harpsichord/clavichord and organ.
In the same year, he received a royal monopoly to build and repair clavichords, harpsichords, and organs.
