A rare or archaic keyboard stringed instrument combining features of the clavichord and the cymbal or possibly designed to produce percussive and melodic sounds together.
From Latin 'clavis' (key) + 'cymbal' (percussion instrument from Greek 'kymbos'). A hybrid term suggesting experimentation with mixed instrumental principles.
Musicians in the 1600s-1800s were constantly trying to merge keyboard instruments with different sound-making mechanisms, and the 'clavicymbal' represents one of probably dozens of forgotten hybrid attempts that died out because they were either too complicated or just sounded weird.
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