| SPINET | Form of harpsichord |
| VIRGINAL | Chaste - kind of harpsichord (8) |
| COUPERIN | 1668-1733 French composer of harpsichord and organ music (8) |
| CLAVIER | J.S. Bach used this "welltempered" instrument's name in a famous work; it's a type of harpsichord |
| BACH | Composer's three notes on first of harpsichords (4) |
| CHOIRS | Organised ensembles of singers; groups of instruments of the same family playing together; or, sets of strings for harpsichords (6) |
| NORTON | Author who wrote of the fictional Clock, Harpsichord, Overmantel, Rainbarrel and Rain Pipe families in The Borrowers (6) |
| PIANOS | Harpsichords' cousins |
| STOP | Set of organ pipes or harpsichord strings producing tones of the same quality (4) |
| SCARLATTI | Domenico ---, composer of many harpsichord sonatas |
| VIRGINALS | Rectangular keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family |
| PLECTRA | Plucking parts of a harpsichord |
| KEY | One of 60 on a harpsichord |
| KEYBOARD | Part of a chordophone such as a piano or harpsichord (8) |
| QUILL | Feather of a goose, crow or raven, used as a pen or for plucking a harpsichord string respectively (5) |
| GOLDBERG | Bach's 30 variations for harpsichord on an original theme of 1741 are usually named the '-- Variations' (8) |
| ROSEWOOD | A fine floral-scented timber for a guitar's fingerboard, a sideboard or the veneer of a harpsichord (8) |
| NETES | Miniature symbols arranged on staves to represent duration/pitch of musical sounds; keys of accordions, harpsichords, organs or pianos; or, the actual tones produced (5) |
| VIRTUOSO | Italian word for one with skills, whether a maestro, musical genius, show-off pianist or consummate master of a harpsichord's quills (8) |
| IST | Ending for violin or harpsichord |
