Spinet definitions

Spinet

1) Apartment instrument 2) Apartment piano 3) Compact piano 4) Downsized upright 5) Early keyboard instrument 6) Grand alternative 7) Grand cousin 8) Grand relative 9) Harpsichord 10) Keyboard instrument 11) Kin to an upright 12) Parlor instrument 13) Parlor piano 14) Parlor piece 15) Petite piano 16) Piano
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Spinet

1) Piano
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spinet

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

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Spinet

A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ. ==Spinets as harpsichords== The bentside spinet shares most of its characteristics with the full-size instrument, including action, soundboard, and case construction. What primarily distinguishes the spinet is the angle of its strings: whereas in a fu...
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spinet

keyed instrument like the harpsichord
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Spinet

• (n.) A spinny. • (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
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spinet

(from the article `upright piano`) ...plane of the strings run vertically, perpendicular to the keyboard, thus taking up less floor space than the normal grand piano. Upright pianos ... ...largely been superseded by the lower models, the `console` (about 40 inches [100 centimetres] high) and the `spinet` (about 36 in...
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spinet

small form of the harpsichord, generally wing-shaped, with a single set of strings placed at an oblique angle to the keyboard. The wing-shaped ... [1 related articles]
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Spinet

Spi'net noun [ Latin spinetum . See Spinny .] A spinny. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.
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Spinet

Spin'et noun [ Old French espinete , French épinette (cf. Italian spinetta ), from Latin spina a thorn; -- so called because its quills resemble thorns. See Spine .] (Mus.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of ...
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Spinet

A spinet (virginal) is a keyed musical instrument of the harpsichord type, but with only one string to a note and therefore less volume. It is generally square in shape and the strings are plucked.
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spinet

[n] - small and compactly built upright piano 2. [n] - early model harpsichord with only one string per note
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spinet

noun early model harpsichord with only one string per note
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spinet

17th-century domestic keyboard instrument. It has a laterally tapered case with a single manual (keyboard) of up to a three-and-a-half octave range, having a plucking action and single strings. It was the precursor of the harpsichord
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