Other popular instruments in the harpsichord family that were popular in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods were the virginal and the spinet.
In a clavichord the strings are struck by metal tangents, while in a harpsichord they are mechanically plucked by quills when the performer depresses the key. Other early keyboard instruments such as the clavichord (invented 1400CE) and the harpsichord (1521) were well developed by the 17 th century, but they did not offer the capabilities that the piano did. The organ is one of the oldest of these, and its earliest predecessors were built in Ancient Greece in the third century BCE.
It dates back to circa 500BCE, and was used in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, China, Greece and Rome.īefore the piano, there were a number of earlier keyboard instruments. The hammered dulcimer became the first widely used stringed musical instrument and can be considered a first precursor of the piano. The concept of making music by striking strings with hammers is very old.
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