Manuscripts for this instrument include My Ladye Nevells Booke, Will Forster's Book, Benjamin Cosyn's Book, and Elizabeth Rogers's Book. The Italian variety was often polygonal in shape and differed from the Flemish and English variety because of its centrally placed keyboard. Sometimes built in pairs with a smaller fitting into a drawer in the larger, it differed from other similar instruments because its strings were placed at right angles to the keys. Its jacks, or wooden rods, that rest on the ends of the keys and hold the plucking mechanism may give it its name. For 10 points, name this harpsichord-like instrument whose name either comes from the Latin for "rod" or from the fact that it was played by young girl
Manuscripts for this instrument include My Ladye Nevells Booke, Will Forster's Book, Benjamin Cosyn's Book, and Elizabeth Rogers's Book. The Italian variety was often polygonal in shape and differed from the Flemish and English variety because of its centrally placed keyboard. Sometimes built in pairs with a smaller fitting into a drawer in the larger, it differed from other similar instruments because its strings were placed at right angles to the keys. Its jacks, or wooden rods, that rest on the ends of the keys and hold the plucking mechanism may give it its name. For 10 points, name this harpsichord-like instrument whose name either comes from the Latin for "rod" or from the fact that it was played by young girls.
Manuscripts for this instrument include My Ladye Nevells Booke, Will Forster's Book, Benjamin Cosyn's Book, and Elizabeth Rogers's Book.
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