Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
clavier .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a stringed instrument that has a keyboard, especially a piano, harpsichord, or clavichord; also, the keyboard of such an instrument. Same as
clavier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stringed instrument that has a keyboard
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In 1814 we have the lovely sonata in E minor for piano, Opus 90, and in 1818 the great sonata for hammer klavier, Opus 106.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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If you'd like to see the entries from this week that didn't make it, klavier meh, they weren't that good, 7 was decent ...
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