A rare or hypothetical keyboard stringed instrument combining keyboard action (clavi-) with a cylindrical sound chamber or resonator design.
From Latin 'clavis' (key) + 'cylindrus' (cylinder, from Greek). A compound term suggesting 18th-19th century experimental instrument design.
During the Industrial Revolution, instrument makers got obsessed with applying mechanical principles to musical instruments, creating wild hybrid designs—the clavicylinder would represent the kind of over-engineered contraption that probably sounded worse than it looked.
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