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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 ...
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."
There are two bentside spinets. One, by John Hancock, London, is of late eighteenth century origin, with a single curve to the bentside. The other is unsigned, appears to be English and may have been made in 1742. [1] It features a wing-shaped bent-side with a double curve as well as elegant ebony accidentals with a central ivory strip.
The oval spinet is a type of harpsichord invented in the late 17th century by Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Italian instrument maker who later achieved fame for inventing the piano. The oval spinet was unusual for its shape, the arrangement of its strings, and for its mechanism for changing registration.
Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann (11 October 1922 – 30 October 2018) was a German-born American harpsichord maker and writer. He was known for inventing a highly popular kit for constructing new instruments and wrote an influential book, The Modern Harpsichord.
The L-100 spinet was particularly popular in the UK. [65] Though the instrument had been originally designed for use in a church, Hammond realized that the amateur home market was a far more lucrative business, and started manufacturing spinet organs in the late 1940s. [66]