Word: harpsichords
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...musical scholarship fund. Miss Webster will be assisted as follows: voices-Miss Edith E. Torrey, Miss Rosetta Key, Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles, Mr. Paul Welsch, Mr. Alfred Denghausen; violins-Miss Goodwin, G. R. Jones '05, L. Mayer '05, viola-Mr. H. I. Tinkham; 'cello-Mr. Denghausen. An old English harpsichord will be used for solos and accompaniments...
...England in Shakespeare's Time," with the same program which was so much enjoyed at the Twentieth Century Club last November. She will be assisted by Miss Edith E. Torrey, Miss Rosetta Key, Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles, Mr. Paul Welsch, Mr. Alfred Denghausen and a string quartet. A harpsichord will be used for solos and accompaniments...
Miss Mary Phillips Webster of Radcliffe College will give a concert-lecture on "The Evolution of the Pianoforte," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. Miss Webster will play compositions of the last four centuries on the clavichord, spinet, harpsichord and early and modern pianofortes. The receipts from the lecture are to be used for the benefit of the Radcliffe Musical Scholarship Fund...
...Radcliffe Musical Scholarship Fund, Miss Mary Phillips Webster of Radcliffe College, will give a concert-lecture on "The Evolution of the Pianoforte," on Tuesday evening, February 23, at 8 o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room. Compositions of the last four centuries will be played on the clavichord, spinet harpsichord, and early and modern pianofortes...
...selections from Bach. This instrument has contested the supremacy of the piano, down to our own century, down in fact to Beethoven's time, and may still be found in some German homes, in place of the piano. He also gave some improvisations on the spinet and the harpsichord which is exactly like the spinet in principle. Sounds are produced in these, by picking the strings with quills...