Word: spinet
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...conductor had its première last week in Munich. Samuel Pepys was its name, Albert Coates its composer. Librettists Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them in the translation of Max Meyerfeld. They waxed enthusiastic...
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...
...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...