Meaning of clavicitherium | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of clavicytherium.

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“[T]he harpſichord is an improvement of the Clavicitherium, an inſtrument known in England in Gower's time by the name⟳ of the Citole, from Cistella, a little cheſt.”

“The writer referred to [Edward Francis Rimbault] traces the instrument from the ancient lyre, through various mechanical phases, the harp, psaltery, dulcimer, etc. to the clavicitherium—a name⟳ compounded from the Latin clavis, a key, and cithera, the name⟳ of an ancient instrument of music, which consisted of strings drawn over a sounding wooden surface or bottom, and not unlike the modern guitar. The clavicitherium was an oblong box, containing a number⟳ of strings arranged in a triangular form⟳, and which were struck by a plectrum—a little mallet, commonly made of ivory, with which the ancients beat⟳ the strings of the lyre.”

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