Anyone who has never strung a spinet, clavichord, or harpsichord cannot imagine what kinds of problems can arise, from the choice of strings, to the actual stretching of the strings until they are tuned.
Source: tatoeba (1468135)
Spinet
//ˈspɪn.ɪt//
Synonyms for "spinet" (38 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- клавесин noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Catalan
1 entries- espineta noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Czech
1 entries- spinet noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Finnish
1 entries- spinetti noun (short, compact harpsichord)
French
1 entries- épinette noun (short, compact harpsichord)
German
1 entries- Spinett noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Hungarian
1 entries- spinét noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Ido
1 entries- espineto noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Italian
1 entries- spinetta noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Macedonian
1 entries- спине́та noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Norwegian
1 entries- spinett noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Occitan
1 entries- espineta noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Polish
1 entries- szpinet noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Portuguese
1 entries- espineta noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Romanian
1 entries- spinetă noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Russian
1 entries- спине́т noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Spanish
1 entries- espineta noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Swedish
1 entries- spinett noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Tagalog
1 entries- espineta noun (short, compact harpsichord)
Sample sentences
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What is a spinet?
Source: tatoeba (12115106)
He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
Source: wiktionary
The invention was to have a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come
Source: wiktionary
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