Music year 1528

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Music year 1528
Clavicytherium

A Klaviziterium or Clavicytherium (also Claviciterium, Klavizitherium or Klavicitherium) - seen here in the upper right corner of a picture from the Syntagma musicum by Michael Praetorius - is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the sound is generated by tearing the strings using quills, as with the harpsichord . With the Clavicytherium, however, the body is upright and the strings run vertically, i.e. vertically to the keys, which means that it can be placed on a wall to save space. As early as 1388, in a letter from John I of Aragón to Philip the Bold of Burgundy, an instrument is mentioned that "resembles an organ, but sounds with strings" (semblant dorguens que sona ab cordes) - this instrument could have been a clavicytherium be. That would mean it's older than the harpsichord. The name of the instrument appears for the first time in 1511 in Sebastian Virdung's Musica tutscht and pulled out . Clavicytheria were apparently rather rare, but were built until the 18th century, later also with fortepiano mechanics.

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