As his hands float over the keyboard, the sound reaching his audience is as singular as it is beautiful: simultaneously reminiscent of the harpsichord, organ and a string quartet.

他的手指在键盘上舞蹈，独特悦耳的声音传到听众那里，同时让想起大键琴、羽管键琴、管风琴以及弦乐四重奏的声音。

By the time he was 14, Mozart had composed many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, as well as for orchestras.

莫扎特到14岁时，就已写出许多首拨弦键琴曲、钢琴曲、小提琴曲，还有管弦乐曲。

He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands.

他带着一种殡仪师的气质慢慢走近他的羽管键琴，轻轻地扭动一下他那纤细修长的双手。

When he began to study harpsichord seriously, at Basel in 1950, the instrument had been neglected, or overlaid with Romantic sweetness, for decades.

1950他开始在巴塞尔正式习羽管键琴，当时这种乐器要么被忽略，要么就是用来表现浪漫风格的甜蜜感，这种情况已有几十。

Mr Leonhardt's life-work was to persuade the world how beautiful the harpsichord was, and how the harpsichord repertoire should be played.

莱昂哈特先生的毕生心血都花在让世界解羽管键琴是多么美好的一种乐器，以及应该怎样弹奏羽管键琴曲目上面。

It did not mean playing a harpsichord strung with modern steel, or fussy ornamentation as a piece was played.

或是弹奏带有现代钢弦的羽管键琴，或是在演奏曲目时加入讲究的装饰音。

But Vivaldi pulled it off with just one violin, strings, and a harpsichord.

然而，维瓦尔第仅凭一把小提琴、弦乐器和一台大键琴就成功实现这一效果。

But what they could afford was a harpsichord.

但他们买得起的只是一架大键琴。

The harpsichord say or elute, But all rules are made to be broken.

羽管键琴说或逃避，但规矩都是用来被打破的。

It's a half speed harpsichord that's brought up to speed.

这是一台半速羽管键琴，过加速处理。

She went directly to the harpsichord and began to play a gavotte by Rameau.

她直接走向大键琴， 开始弹奏拉莫的一首加沃特舞曲。

Now, unlike the harpsichord which came before it, the piano is a percussion instrument.

现在，与之前的羽管键琴不同， 钢琴是一种打击乐器。

He played the oboe and harpsichord too.

他还演奏双簧管和羽管键琴。

Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

他们的外衣上装饰着太阳、月亮和星星的图案；还织有小提琴、长笛、竖琴、号角、吉他、羽管键琴和其他许多我们欧洲不知道的乐器的图案。

In the course of the forenoon, Hepzibah heard a note of music, which (there being no other tuneful contrivance in the House of the Seven Gables) she knew must proceed from Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

在上午的过程中，Hepzibah 听到一段音乐，她知道这一定是爱丽丝·品钦的羽管键琴发出的（七山墙之屋没有其他优美的装置）。

Discerning that Clifford was not gladdened by her efforts, Hepzibah searched about the house for the means of more exhilarating pastime. At one time, her eyes chanced to rest on Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

赫普兹巴看出克利福德对她的努力并不满意，便在屋子里四处寻找更令振奋的消遣方式。有一次，她的目光偶然落在爱丽丝·品钦的大键琴上。

Paklin began begging the old people to sing them some ballad. They were both surprised and amused at the idea, but consented readily on condition that Snandulia accompanied them on the harpsichord.

帕克林开始恳求老给他们唱一些民谣。他们对这个想法既惊讶又好笑，但欣然同意，条件是斯南杜利亚用大键琴伴奏。

Also the keyboardist, whoever was playing like the piano or the harpsichord or something like that, they might be doing it too.

此外， 键盘手， 无论是弹奏钢琴、羽管键琴还是类似乐器的，他们可能也在同时指挥。

Sometimes Thomas played his violin while Martha played the harpsichord, which resembled a piano.

有时，托马斯会拉小提琴， 而玛莎会拉大键琴， 它就像一架钢琴。

Now, as we know, keyboard instruments existed long before the piano—the organ, which dates back to the Middle Ages, as do other keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, which is still popular today with some musicians.

现在，正如我们所知，键盘乐器早在钢琴之前就已存在——管风琴可以追溯到中世纪，其他键盘乐器也是如此，例如大键琴，它今天仍然受到一些音乐家的欢迎。