spinet in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ spi'net ] ]
Examples
- Unlike in a virginals, the longest strings in an oval spinet are placed in the middle.
- The lowest F # and G # on the keyboard of the 1690 oval spinet are split.
- In 1619, he settled in France and married the daughter of the spinet maker Jean Jacquet.
- He was celebrated for his piano improvisations and often jammed in duets with Ellington on the spinet.
- The keyboard has ivory-covered naturals and skunktail sharps, just as on the 1726 spinet.
- Some of the instruments used in production were a spinet piano and an old Prophet 600 keyboard.
- The spinet enjoyed decades of popularity after the 1930s, but production was halted in the early 1990s.
- Other instrument kits were also made available, including a spinet harpsichord ( 1966 ) and a clavichord.
- This included an organ, three types of spinets, a violin, and another bowed string instrument.
- The two oval spinets both appear in a 1700 inventory of Prince Ferdinando's musical instrument collection.