"clavicitherium" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1776, John Hawkins, “Preliminary Discourse”, in A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, … In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Payne and Son, at the Mews-Gate, →OCLC, page xiv",
          "text": "[T]he harpſichord is an improvement of the Clavicitherium, an inſtrument known in England in Gower's time by the name of the Citole, from Cistella, a little cheſt.",
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          "ref": "1872, Horace Greeley et al., “Piano-fortes”, in The Great Industries of the United States: Being an Historical Summaryof the Origin, Growth, and Perfection of the Chief Industrial Arts of This Country, Hartford, Conn.: J. B. Burr & Hyde; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Oh.: J. B. Burr, Hyde & Co., →OCLC, page 275",
          "text": "The writer referred to [Edward Francis Rimbault] traces the instrument from the ancient lyre, through various mechanical phases, the harp, psaltery, dulcimer, etc. to the clavicitherium—a name compounded from the Latin clavis, a key, and cithera, the name of an ancient instrument of music, which consisted of strings drawn over a sounding wooden surface or bottom, and not unlike the modern guitar. The clavicitherium was an oblong box, containing a number of strings arranged in a triangular form, and which were struck by a plectrum—a little mallet, commonly made of ivory, with which the ancients beat the strings of the lyre.",
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