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Spinet

noun
1.
A small and compactly built upright piano.
2.
Early model harpsichord with only one string per note.





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"Spinet" Quotes from Famous Books



... singing resounded through these spacious halls; no pleasant ladies, in light, airy, summer costume swept through the fragrant apartments; M. d'Adhemar no longer sits at the spinet, and sings with his rich voice the beautiful arias from the opera "Richard of the Lion Heart," in which royalty had its apotheosis, and in which the singer Garat had excited all Paris to the wildest demonstrations ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... divan need the Sultan require, Than the creaking old sofa that basks by the fire; And 'tis wonderful, surely, what music you get From the rickety, ramshackle, wheezy spinet. ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... had been totally neglected. Books were unknown at Tregunter, excepting a few magazines or periodical publications, which at different periods Miss Robinson borrowed from her juvenile neighbours. There was, however, an old spinet in one of the parlours. Music had been one of my early delights, and I sometimes vainly endeavoured to draw a kind of jingling harmony from this time-shaken and neglected instrument. These attempts, however, frequently subjected me to insult. "I had better think of getting my bread; ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson


Words linked to "Spinet" :   upright, upright piano, cembalo, harpsichord


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