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It is not proven that Zenti invented the bentside spinet, but the earliest existing bentside spinet (1631) is by Zenti, and the instrument became popular, especially in Britain, after his travels there. The final clue giving this theory support is that in France the bentside spinet was called: espinette á l'italienne. [4]
a walnut bentside spinet by Thomas Hitchcock, dated 1728 [7] a bentside spinet made in 1757 by Sir John Harrison Burnett [8] a finely-decorated double-manual harpsichord by Jacob Kirckman, dating from 1755 [9] a Scottish bentside spinet made in Edinburgh in 1784 by Neil Stewart [10] a single-manual harpsichord by John Broadwood and Sons, made ...
Girl at a Spinet, 1871 painting by Gabriel von Max. Harpsichord historian Frank Hubbard wrote in 1967, "the earliest [bentside] spinet known to me was made by Hieronymus de Zentis in 1631. It is quite possible that Zentis was the inventor of the type so widely copied in other countries."
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Bentside spinet by John Harris. English by birth, Harris was the son of Joseph Harris, also a maker of harpsichords and spinets. He is known to have been working in London's Red Lion Street by 1730, the year in which he received a patent for "a new invented harpsichord". The description of the instrument suggests that it has only unison ...
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The 1738 spinet is elaborately painted with a forest scene on the inside of the lid, while the case is covered with a menagerie of monkeys playing musical instruments. [ 7 ] The soundboard paintings in Delin's instruments are typical Flemish floral motifs, with visible outlines, flat coloring and little detail, a style similar to the Ruckers.
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