CLAVICHORD • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Clavichord

... order to give passage to as many brass wires as these diaphragms are to sustain and keep separated. At each extremity of this pipe are twenty-four wires that deviate from one another horizontally, and that are arranged like the keys of a clavichord; and, above this row of wire ends, are distinctly traced the twenty-four letters of the alphabet, while beneath there is a table covered with twenty-four small pieces of gold-leaf or other easily attractable and ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various