The clavichord is an odd little keyboard popular in Europe from the 16th till the 18th century. It was designed as a practice instrument, and it didn’t produce enough volume for the typical concert ...

This post originally appeared in Caixin. On Jan. 24, 1601, the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in Beijing bearing a cache of gifts that he had spent years assembling, and even longer ...

When snow blankets the ground the clavichord comes into its own. The world becomes quieter, or tries to, and this quietest of instruments finds its voice anew. The clavichord demands great ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was the most famous Bach of the eighteenth century, more celebrated than his father, Johann Sebastian. C.P.E. Bach never left Germany, but his renown stretched ...

Christopher Grills has a clavichord. And he might be the only person around who can make a claim like that. "I would say this is the only clavichord in Joplin, wouldn't you?" he mused, quite seriously ...