Word: spinet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stands Abbey. His resources are inexhaustible. Whenever he is called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...chavichord, a number of 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...