spinet

IPA: spɪnˈɛt

Examples of "spinet" in Sentences

"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.
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.