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In earlier times when English spelling was less standardized, "spinet" was sometimes spelled "spinnet" or "spinnit". "Spinet" is standard today. Spinet derives from the Italian spinetta , which in 17th-century Italian was a word used generally for all quilled instruments, especially what in Elizabethan / Jacobean English were called virginals .
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 ...
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.
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The Colt Clavier Collection was a collection of historical keyboard instruments located in Bethersden, Kent, England.Consisting mostly of 18th and 19th-century pianos, it also included a few harpsichords and a few unusual keyboards which defy standard categorisation.
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