Word: spinet
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When his admirers called him "Philosopher" ("Diogenes without his dirt," said one), FitzGerald retorted that he had merely "a talent for dullness." He rose early, spent his mornings reading "old books" and doing occasional writing; in the afternoon he casually drew and painted. Evenings, he smoked, played the spinet, and entertained a few local callers. "Day follows day with unvaried movement," he declared; "there is the same level meadow with geese upon it always lying before my eyes: the same pollard oaks: with now and then the butcher or the washerwoman trundling...
...down grand pianos to baby grands, uprights to pianettes. Measuring 45 in. high, 60 in. wide and 25 in. deep, the Vertichord is essentially a grand piano upended, combining the long strings and large sounding board of that instrument with the compactness of an upright, the grace of a spinet. Cost of the Vertichord: $295 to $445. Similar instruments are being marketed by other firms: the Vertical Grand, the Betsy Ross Spinet, the Spinet Grand...
...Boston Symphony's surprise concert last week was not so hilarious as Chicago's. Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his men dressed up in 18th Century wigs and ruffles, played with candles lighting their music racks, disappeared one by one until only Koussevitzky was left at the spinet and on a screen flashed the lines: "You have heard Haydn's Farewell Symphony. May your orchestra never play its own." Surprise came when Koussevitzky announced that he had never really heard his own double-bass concerto. He went and sat in the audience while Ludwig Juht...
Ludwig II would have given his right ear to have invented the ingenious piano which Bechstein put on the market last week. Combination piano, spinet, harmonium, phonograph and radio receiver, it is no madman's dream, no impractical curiosity, but a precise, scientific musical instrument, substituting electrical apparatus for the standard piano sounding-board. The electrical engineering is the work of Walther Nernst, German physicist: electrical equipment by Siemens & Halske A. G.; pianobuilding by C. Bechstein. "Claviphone" is one of the names suggested for it. Principle is. simply, that microphones pick up the vibrations, fundamental tones and overtones...
...amplifier. To it is attached a loudspeaker. These may also be used for phonograph or radio reception (with pick-up or aerial). A dial by the keyboard regulates the volume of sound in eleven degrees of loudness. If the loudspeaker is turned off, the "Claviphone" tinkles like a spinet. Turned on full force, it will fill a large hall. Once you have set the dial for a certain volume, you may vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal. The right (sustaining) pedal is like that of a standard piano, will hold a tone until...