spinet
IPA: spɪnˈɛt
noun
- (music) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
- (obsolete) A spinney.
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Examples of "spinet" in Sentences
- Daddy bought me a beautiful spinet piano.
- The spinet was also the bane of piano technicians.
- The front side of the spinet contains the keyboard.
- Featured are a viola da gamba, spinet, and cittern.
- The case of a bentside spinet is approximately triangular.
- Shortly after the debut of the spinet the chord organ appeared.
- A musical instrument in form of a spinet, called also manichord.
- The article also provides further information on the oval spinet.
- This fellow plays the honky tonk, the spinet, and not the theremin.
- "I don't think I've ever heard that played on a spinet," he told her.
- After dinner, Swift insisted Betsy Patrick play a few selections on her spinet.
- This is impossible in a spinet, due to the alternating orientation of the jacks.
- Each floral scent was clear, as distinct as the notes Connie played on her old-fashioned spinet.
- After supper, she played the spinet for a time, filling the house with the rousing sound of "Yankee Doodle."
- In addition to the B3, there are a number of smaller Hammond instruments, known as the spinet series (M3, M100, L100, T100).
- As a child, when my father played piano, I was small enough to hide myself inside the case at the base of my family's spinet.
- By some means, and with friendly assistance (perhaps his mother's), he succeeded in smuggling into the garret a spinet, which is a kind of piano.
- And to the mention of a Clementi piano, that short, gentle, sad, old, little sort of piano people will insist upon calling a spinet, in her flat.
- I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners.