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Baldwin Electric harpsichord
Electric harpsichord, 1966 to early 1970s. Solid-body harpsichord whose strings are plucked by plectra and picked up by two guitar-style pickups, so it is amplified rather than acoustic. Heard on many pop records of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Source, read 15 Nov 2026
Records it appears on · 1
- Crimson and Clover
Tommy James and the Shondells · Crimson & Clover, 1968
- Keyboards · InstrumentReportedStudio's electric harpsichord, among the instruments James played on the record.
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