


The incident took place on April 12, some four months after a terror attack left 14 dead in nearby San Bernardino, and just over three months before a French priest was killed by ISIS-linked jihadists in his church. Hence it is particularly used by nuns.įather Josiah Trenham said. The chords are covered with pieces of cloth, which deaden the sound and render it sweeter. There are several little mortises for passing the jacks, armed with brass hooks, which stop and raise the chords, instead of the feather used in virginals and spinets. It has forty nine or fifty stops or keys, and seventy strings some of the latter being in unison.

A musical instrument in form of a spinet, called also manichord. However, Webster's Dictionary defines it as a string-instrument as follows:ġ828 edition: CLARICHORD, n. The use of this word for an instrument resembling a panpipe or clarion horn suggests it was a wind instrument. To add to the confusion, "Claricord" is now the brand name of an adjustable neckstrap used to support the weight of a clarinet. Alternatively it has been said to represent a "rest", a device used by mediaeval knights to support a lance during jousting. It is generally said to represent a musical instrument such as a panpipe, organ or recorder, but does not resemble the trumpet-like clarion known to modern musicians. In Canadian heraldry, it is the cadency mark of a ninth daughter. The clarion, clarichord, clavicord or rest is a rare charge in heraldry of uncertain origin and purpose. Freebase (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:
