The Double Manual Harpsichord - Double Keyboard Harp?

A double manual harpsichord has two keyboards. This allows the player to avoid hand crossing and play notes with slightly different timbres, which normally isn't a very flexible instrument in those regards. Future Kirk: I think it just prevents certain types of hand crossing. That's what that's called in it, two keyboards. What does the second keyboard get you, just a bigger range? Same.

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