HARPSICHORD Antonyms

• a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

• a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

• device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like

• holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung

• a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

• a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

• (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

• a periodical that is published by a special interest group

• wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

• a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

• (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone

• a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds

• (music) low loudness

• used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly

• a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

• an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods

• (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments

• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

• proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet

• play or blow on the trumpet

• utter in trumpet-like sounds

• bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow