How To Use Spinet In A Sentence
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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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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.
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She sighed and shut the spinet, dusting the gold off her fingers.
THE THORN BIRDS
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More recently, in 2009, the top Piedmontese producer La Spinetta began making Vermentino in Tuscany, too, under the name Casanova della Spinetta.
The Wine of Yachts and Beaches
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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.
Music Talks with Children
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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.
The Research Magnificent
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Before recordings were available, people had to wait to hear wonderfully performed music; at home, people either went without or made their own, at parlor spinet pianos or on the porch with guitar and banjo.
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To focus more attention on your eyes, Espinet recommends using a pencil-thin brush to apply cream eye shadow in smoky grays or warm earth tones to the top and bottom lash lines.
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Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
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A.D. 1598, and the reference is evidently to an instrument of the spinet or cembalo kind; but how the tone was produced there is no statement, no word to base an inference upon.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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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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I can practically see at the spinet my Aunt Ida sliding into ‘Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar.’
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Each floral scent was clear, as distinct as the notes Connie played on her old-fashioned spinet.
The Dressmaker
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In the great central panel of the Agliardi triptych, a guitar lies strings-down on a spinet and knife and, with a bowl of fruit deposited on top of it, becomes an impromptu piece of furniture.
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After supper, she played the spinet for a time, filling the house with the rousing sound of "Yankee Doodle.
The Devil's Bedpost
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Sarah was fond of music and played the spinet (a musical instrument like a small harpsichord).
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These baby baby grands and tiny spinets produce three octaves from hammers hitting metal rods.
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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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Some insecticides for thrips management include spinetoram and spinosad, dimethoate, methomyl, and flonicamid.
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After dinner, Swift insisted Betsy Patrick play a few selections on her spinet.
The Devil's Bedpost
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Contemporaneously with the spinet, and of almost equal antiquity, was an instrument in the form of a grand piano, called in Italy the clavicembalo, and in England the harpsichord.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Soon afterwards, they bought me a small spinet organ and arranged for me to take lessons.
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Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
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No mathematical instrument maker was to be found in Glasgow, but Watt entered the service of a kind of jack-of-all-trades, who called himself an "optician" and sold and mended spectacles, repaired fiddles, tuned spinets, made fishing-rods and tackle, etc.
James Watt
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I don't think I've ever heard that played on a spinet," he told her.
The Devil's Bedpost
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Besides the narrow endemics listed above, characteristic birds of the escarpment forests and woodlands include red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), red-backed mousebird (Colius castanotus) (both endemic to Angola), mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), batlike spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus), red-tailed palm thrush (Cichladusa ruficauda), and yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia concreta).
Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
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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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Also found here are the plain-winged antwren (Myrmotherula behni), dusky spinetail (Synallaxis moesta), lemon-throated barbet (Eubucco richardsoni), and zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus).
Caqueta moist forests
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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.
The Man With a Thousand Faces
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To this group belonged the virginal, or virginals, the clavicembalo, the harpsichord, or clavecin, and the spinet.
For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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Aspinet himself; while the first red man allowed to come on board the shallop was the owner of the corn "borrowed" by the Pilgrims, who now repaid its value twofold by an order for goods to be delivered at
Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
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When the spinet was of very small dimensions it was called a virginal; when it was in the shape of our modern grand piano, it was, of course,
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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In addition to the B3, there are a number of smaller Hammond instruments, known as the spinet series (M3, M100, L100, T100).
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According to her artist's statement, when she was a young girl, she demanded a piano; her parents bought a spinet piano for her, and her nursery school teacher gave her instruction.
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His nails resemble the ivory keys of the spinet.
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Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
