To this group belonged the virginal, or virginals, the clavicembalo, the harpsichord, or clavecin, and the spinet.

N. B.- Isendmy sister, by him, "6 duetti a clavicembalo e violino," by Schuster.

They had organs, lutes, viols, lyres, harps, citherns, horns, and a kind of primitive piano known as the clavichord or the clavicembalo.