Harmonichord

Harmonichord bowed keyboard instr. in form of a *giraffe piano, invented ca. 1810 by Friedrich Kaufmann of Dresden, in an attempt to solve, by application of the *clavicylinder principle, the problems inherent in bowed keyboard instrs. A rosin-coated cylinder was worked by foot, and the strings were pressed against it by means of wooden bars. Weber wrote an Adagio and Rondo for it in 1811. Not to be confused with harmonicorde (37, 89, 169). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending…