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Definition of Spinet
1. Noun. A small and compactly built upright piano.
2. Noun. Early model harpsichord with only one string per note.
Definition of Spinet
1. n. A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
2. n. A spinny.
Definition of Spinet
1. Noun. (musical instruments) A short, compact harpsichord or piano. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spinet
1. a small piano [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinet
Literary usage of Spinet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The oldest spinet we can point out is in the Conservatoire, Paris. ... Besides the
pentagonal spinet, there was an heptagonal variety ; they had neither ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"According to Mersenne, who treats of the spinet as the principal keyed
instrument (Harmonie, ... We shall refer to his octave spinet in another paragraph. ..."
3. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1906)
"Space forbids any account of the evolution of the piano, but since we have seen
that the virginal, spinet and harpsichord were of frequent occurrence in the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"irU'r; in the next place it is almost certain that the Italian spinet compass,
beginning apparently upon a semitone, is identical with a " short measure ..."
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