Harpsichord is valid Scrabble Word

Is harpsichord a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is harpsichord valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for HARPSICHORD in dictionary:

NOUN:

a keyboard instrument with horizontal strings that run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys
a keyboard instrument with horizontal strings which run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys. It is used chiefly in European classical music of the 16th to 18th centuries.
a musical instrument
A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.
a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a stringed instrument resembling a grand piano but usually having two keyboards and two or more strings for each note and producing tones by the plucking of strings with plectra

Words related to HARPSICHORD

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Words that contain HARPSICHORD

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How to use HARPSICHORD in a sentence

It was not long before Jones was able to attend her to the harpsichord, where she would kindly condescend for hours together to charm him with the most delicious music.
Charles Dieupart, a Frenchman, was a fine performer on the violin and harpsichord.
He draws with elegance and precision a chair, a clock, a harpsichord, a barometer, a piece of needle-work.
Aulaire, who was at the harpsichord, had just begun.
She was standing by the harpsichord when the gentlemen entered, but, on catching sight of Mr.
Ariet used to reproach his other scholars with my performances on the harpsichord.
One morning immediately after breakfast, she went to her harpsichord, and played one after another several of those airs that were most the favourites of Mr.
The grand piano had a case specially made for it, painted a dull sage-green and finished in a manner to give it a look of the less massive harpsichord.
It was with pleasure I observed, at a small inn on the lake of Como, the master of it playing upon his harpsichord, with a large collection of Italian music about him.
The system of fingering employed in playing the harpsichord, up to 1700, did not make use of the thumb.

Rameau had already commenced his career by gaining great success as a harpsichord player and instrumental composer, mostly for the harpsichord.
When we were considering the early works for harpsichord, I said that music could define certain things with quite reasonable exactitude.
Since that I have received yours of October the 25th, enclosing a duplicate of the last invented tongue for the harpsichord.
The harpsichord has been revived of late so that it is needless to describe it.
Whilst on this tour Handel was present at a masked ball when Scarlatti, the celebrated Italian performer, aroused great applause by his playing on the harpsichord.
Handel was not long in finding his way thither, and he became a regular attendant, always presiding at the harpsichord.
A young man is seated at the harpsichord playing the accompaniment of a song from the manuscript before him.
It was settled that we should learn the harpsichord.
When not painting, she was making chalk and crayon drawings, mastering the harpsichord, or lost in the pages of French, German, or Italian.
She was gay the whole voyage, sung to her harpsichord, and left the door of her cabin open.
As supper was not ready, the Queen sat down, sung, and played on the harpsichord to the Royal Family, who all supped with her in private.
A second is the splendid picture at Althorpe, in which she is represented as playing the harpsichord.
To the same young lady I bequeath likewise my harpsichord, my chamber-organ, and all my music-books.
The lovely scene of the vicarage parlor, in which we used a harpsichord and were accused of pedantry for our pains, did not look so well at the Lyceum as at the Court.
When I entered the parlor, she was playing a melancholy air on the harpsichord.
In this room stands a harpsichord, with its double keyboard and brilliant red case.
He arranged that the music teacher, who gave the girls their lessons in singing and in playing upon the harpsichord and guitar, should teach them four days a week instead of two.
She hummed a little French air, and went and ran her fingers up and down the keys of the pianoforte, which great new instrument had supplanted the old harpsichord in the house.
She planted a row of morning-glories round the bottom of her barrel, and drove a row of tacks around the top, and strung her water-butt with twine, like a great harpsichord.
Many of the harpsichord pieces are of tiny proportions.

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