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She made friends with local djs, had an expensive musical education, did whatever it took to get backstage, and had once built a harpsicord from a kit.
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He sipped the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and listened to the genteel chords of a Bach harpsicord concerto.
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I feel that way all the time, however I'd love a harpsicord.
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The Dark green tabs are the flute stops (at the usual organ intervals, including halfs), light green are clarinet stops, orange is percussion and yellow is sustain (piano, harpsicord & vibe(?) sounds that sustain after thekey is released).
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From declarations to "get your ass up in this tub", the stripped down and shaking harpsicord?!?, right down to the yodelling (brought out more here than the original) .... you heard it here first: SONG O THE YEAR.
joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001
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These documents he submitted to the Choshu baron, accompanying them with certain rare objects of European manufacture, including a clock and a harpsicord.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Some one was playing a violin with exquisite skill, accompanied by the harpsicord, and a lady and gentleman were singing.
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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There was no mistaking the violinist, for there was only one in the neighborhood capable of so artistic work, while Mrs. Skelton had no superior as a player upon the harpsicord, the fashionable instrument of those days.
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Thus secluded from his old associates, it will not be wondered at that he contrived to form new ones, and having purchased an old harpsicord, turned the musical instruction he had received to occasional account; he also wrote some political pamphlets which were well received.
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Do your night parties still flourish? and do you continue to bewilder your company with your thousand faces running down through all the keys of idiotism (like Lloyd over his perpetual harpsicord), from the smile and the glimmer of half-sense and quarter-sense to the grin and hanging lip of Betty Foy's own Johnny?
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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