| It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers. |
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| In the spinet, the strings run obliquely away from the player, producing a wing-shaped case, or a trapezoid case in smaller instruments. |
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| Two pictures feature color TV sets, and one couple poses in front of a spinet piano, a very rare object in a Chinese household. |
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| Soon afterwards, they bought me a small spinet organ and arranged for me to take lessons. |
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| Matteo Ricci had brought with him a spinet, other Jesuits brought violins and flutes, cellos and bassoons and manuals on music styles. |
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| He showed talent on the violin and spinet by the age of four, and by age 10 he was deputizing at the church organ. |
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| A cousin, Nicholas, was a maker of the small spinet of the day, the virginal, and Giles may have begun his musical activity in that way. |
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| The child must have shown unusual talent, for he was given lessons from his fourth year, a spinet was bought for him, and by age 9 he was standing in for his teacher as organist in the village church. |
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| The other major aspect of spinet design is that the strings are arranged in pairs. |
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| This is impossible in a spinet, due to the alternating orientation of the jacks. |
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| For these reasons, the spinet was normally only a domestic instrument, purchased to save money and conserve domestic space. |
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| When the term spinet is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the bentside spinet, described in this section. |
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| Many spinet pianos still exist today, left over from their period of manufacture. |
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| Lastly, the very short strings of the spinet resulted in a narrow range of harmonics and thus in poor tone quality. |
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| I went into the smoking-room and sat down before the spinet. |
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| Rosemary Robinson will play the spinet with Caroline Jones playing the descant, sopranino and treble recorders. |
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| A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ. |
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| The wing spinet has no equivalent in this new family of instruments, but the clavichords, equipped with the new mechanism, forms the basis of a very important dynasty of instruments: the square piano. |
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| Also on display are a number of highly valuable Italian keyboard instruments, including a harpsichord and spinet, worked and painted with a delicacy to equal that of their sound. |
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| And accompanying such sights were clever little grace notes – the prancing spinet that announces Squire Allworthy's return home, the silent-movie titles that open the story, Tom's addresses to camera. |
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| The spinet piano, manufactured from the 1930s until recent times, was the culmination of a trend among manufacturers to make pianos smaller and cheaper. |
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