He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands.

他带着一种殡仪师的气质慢慢近他的羽管键琴，轻轻地扭动一下他纤细修长的双手。

It did not mean playing a harpsichord strung with modern steel, or fussy ornamentation as a piece was played.

或是弹奏带有现代钢弦的羽管键琴，或是在演奏曲目时加入讲究的装饰音。

Mr Leonhardt's life-work was to persuade the world how beautiful the harpsichord was, and how the harpsichord repertoire should be played.

莱昂哈特先生的毕生心血都花在让世界了解羽管键琴是多么美好的一种乐器，以及应该怎样弹奏羽管键琴曲目上面。

Sometimes Thomas played his violin while Martha played the harpsichord, which resembled a piano.

有时，托马斯会拉小提琴， 而玛莎会拉键琴， 它就像一架钢琴。

But Vivaldi pulled it off with just one violin, strings, and a harpsichord.

但第仅用一小提琴、弦乐和羽管键琴就成功了。

She went directly to the harpsichord and began to play a gavotte by Rameau.

她直接向键琴， 开始弹奏拉莫的一首加沃特舞曲。

" Was it the same harpsichord that you showed me" ?

“是你给我看的键琴吗” ？

By the time he was 14, Mozart had composed many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, as well as for orchestras.

莫扎特到14岁时，就已经写出了许多首拨弦键琴曲、钢琴曲、小提琴曲，还有管弦乐曲。

When he began to study harpsichord seriously, at Basel in 1950, the instrument had been neglected, or overlaid with Romantic sweetness, for decades.

1950年他开始在巴塞正式学习羽管键琴，当时这种乐器要么被人忽略，要么就是用来表现浪漫风格的甜蜜感，这种情况已经有几十年了。

She preferred the harpsichord to the piano, but when Conway went to the latter she would listen with grave and almost dutiful appreciation.

比起钢琴，她更喜欢键琴， 但当康威选择后者时， 她会带着严肃的、近乎尽责的欣赏之情聆听。

As his hands float over the keyboard, the sound reaching his audience is as singular as it is beautiful: simultaneously reminiscent of the harpsichord, organ and a string quartet.

他的手指在键盘上舞蹈，独特悦耳的声音传到听众里，同时让人想起键琴、羽管键琴、管风琴以及弦乐四重奏的声音。

" Pretty little place, " commented Barnard, as Chang led the way into an open pavilion which, to Conway's further delight, contained a harpsichord and a modern grand piano.

巴纳德评论道， 张带路进入一个开放的展馆， 令康威更加高兴的是， 展馆内有一架键琴和一架现代三角钢琴。

Paklin began begging the old people to sing them some ballad. They were both surprised and amused at the idea, but consented readily on condition that Snandulia accompanied them on the harpsichord.

帕克林开始恳求老人给他们唱一些民谣。他们对这个想法既惊讶又好笑，但欣然同意，条件是斯南杜利亚用键琴伴奏。

Discerning that Clifford was not gladdened by her efforts, Hepzibah searched about the house for the means of more exhilarating pastime. At one time, her eyes chanced to rest on Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

赫普兹巴看出克利福德对她的努力并不满意，便在屋子里四处寻找更令人振奋的消遣方式。有一次，她的目光偶然落在爱丽丝·品钦的键琴上。

In the course of the forenoon, Hepzibah heard a note of music, which (there being no other tuneful contrivance in the House of the Seven Gables) she knew must proceed from Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

在上午的过程中，Hepzibah 听到了一段音乐，她知道这一定是爱丽丝·品钦的羽管键琴发出的（七山墙之屋没有其他优美的装置）。

Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

他们的外衣装饰着太阳、月亮和星星的图案。与小提琴、长笛、竖琴、小号、吉他、键琴和许多其他我们在欧洲不为人知的音乐乐器交织在一起。

For years he laboured to find the most authentic replica harpsichord; his favourite, by Martin Skowroneck of Bremen, which had pride of place in his huge drawing room, was made of 18th-century woods.

多年来他一直努力寻找最正统的复古羽管键琴，他的爱琴来自不来梅的马丁·斯科罗耐克琴厂，在他的巨客厅中占有中心位置，是由18世纪的木材制成的。

He learned to play the harpsichord when he was four, he started composing music when he was five, and when he was six, he played the harpsichord in a concert for the Empress of Austria.

他四岁时就开始学习弹奏拨弦键琴，五岁开始谱曲，六岁曾在为奥地利女皇举办的音乐会上弹奏拨弦键琴。

It was strewn about with a few old books, and a work-basket, and a dusty writing-desk; and had, on one side, a large black article of furniture, of very strange appearance, which the old gentlewoman told Phoebe was a harpsichord.

里面散落着几本旧书、一个工作篮和一张布满灰尘的写字台。一边有一件黑色的家具，外观很奇怪，老太太告诉菲比是一键琴。

But, even now, she was supposed to haunt the House of the Seven Gables, and, a great many times, —especially when one of the Pyncheons was to die, —she had been heard playing sadly and beautifully on the harpsichord.

但是，即使是现在，她也应该经常出没于七角墙之家，而且有很多次——尤其是当 Pyncheons 之一即将死去时——人们听到她在键琴上悲伤而优美地演奏。