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Clavier

noun

A bank of keys on a musical instrument. Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard.

A stringed instrument that has a keyboard. Synonym: Klavier.

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"Clavier" Quotes from Famous Books

... this school of adversity the boy had a hard life. His father was his first teacher, teaching him both violin and clavier. He began with him as early as his fourth year; he seems to have been aware of the boy's ability, but had no consideration, and was a hard taskmaster. Before he was nine years of age, however, the boy's progress was so great that the father had no ...

— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer

... any doubt among those who had met the boy Mozart that he was a genius. At fourteen years of age he had already been playing the clavier and the violin for a number of years. His father, himself a musician, was attached to the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and had written a great deal of music. But when he discovered the amazing ...

— Historic Boyhoods • Rupert Sargent Holland

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