News Summary

• The clavichord is a distant ancestor of the modern piano.
• The keys whack the strings to make sound, but unlike a piano, they do so directly.
• There are two octaves and ten strings, which means each string is expresses two or three notes since this instrument is fully chromatic– that means there are ‘dark’ keys for the sharps/flats.
• [Ian] accomplished this build entirely with traditional woodworking, unlike the 3D printed piano mechanism we saw recently.