1.The larger zither family includes such instruments as the Aeolian harp, autoharp, cimbalom, dulcimer, koto, and even the clavichord, harpsichord, and piano.
3.While the others were taking their siestas she would practice the clavichord for two hours, knowing that the daily sacrifice would keep Fernanda calm.
5.Fernanda's opposition lasted until the day when Meme broke down her resistance with the news that the Americans wanted to hear her play the clavichord.
6.They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day, and even clavichord practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo.
7." A Pope! " Three months later Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda took Meme to school and came back with a clavichord, which took the place of the pianola.
8.Every year for two months Aureliano Segundo played his role of an exemplary husband and heorganized parties with ice cream and cookies which the gay and lively schoolgirl enhanced with the clavichord.
9.Her frivolous and even slightly infantile character did not seem up to any serious activity, but when she sat down at the clavichord she became a different girl, one whose unforeseen maturity gave her the air of an adult.
10.Meme, his sister, dividing her time between Fernanda's rigidity and Amaranta's bitterness, at almost the same moment reached the age set for her to be sent to the nuns' school, where they wouldmake a virtuoso on the clavichord of her.