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How to pronounce spinet in English?

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Type Words
Type of upright, upright piano
Type Words
Type of cembalo, harpsichord

Examples of spinet

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It took seven students to load the spinet onto a Ford Ranger for the creative ploy.
From the ocregister.com
Creech sits stick-straight, practicing at the modest, brown spinet in his living room.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Standing with her back to us, a young woman plays the virginal, an early form of the spinet.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Antonia herself learned to play the harpsichord, spinet and clavichord, as well as the harp, taught by Gluck.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Inside one room was a spinet piano.
From the washingtonpost.com
A spinet, a small harpsichord hand-made by Brown and her children from a kit, makes a unique stand for photographs and other artifacts of Brown's life.
From the stltoday.com
Spinet organs from the M, L, T and V series use two 44-note offset manuals, a built-in bass pedal keyboard, and internal speakers and amplification.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The spinet organs had 5 fewer tonewheels in the generator than the console organs as the keyboards did not go down as far in pitch as on a full console organs such as the B-3.
From the en.wikipedia.org
With its tinkling, bell-like sound, you'd think it was a xylophone or marimba, but the celesta is an upright keyboard instrument, about the size of a spinet piano.
From the entertainment.time.com
More examples
  • A small and compactly built upright piano
  • Early model harpsichord with only one string per note
  • A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.
  • A short, compact harpsichord or piano
  • (Spinets) not to be confused with the other kinds of spinets, are tiny and look like somebody hacked the entire top half of the upright off. They're more difficult to play because of the shorter keys and should anything go wrong, woe be unto you, for they're the bane of every piano technician.
  • A vertical or upright piano, 36" or 37" in height.
  • Politician's order .