Spinets

This country is about a game-changing guarantee that equal room will be made for Latino socialists, disgruntled lesbian spinsters, foul-mouthed Jewish comics and even, dare I say it, for metrosexual half-Canadian art critics with a fondness for offal, spinets and kilts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Somewhere out there lies a wasteland the size of Nebraska piled thirty feet high with spinets and baby grands, summer suns and winter frosts peeling their veneer off in curls and loosening the ivory of keys and snapping wires that lash out at the deaf air with one last, long, despairing B flat. ❋ Holland, Barbara (1999)

As there is no record of spinets, or virginals, having been used at ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

The old spinets and harpsichords, with their charming inlaid cases, were beautiful, but they gave forth only tinkly sounds. ❋ Elsie De Wolfe (N/A)

This can be done through the piano factory; but in the case of redecorating a room, one can easily get some independent artist to do this work, a man who has made a study of the decorations on old spinets in palaces, private mansions and museums. ❋ Grace Wood (N/A)

My father in those times fashioned wonderful organs with pipes of wood, spinets the fairest and most excellent which then could be seen, viols and lutes and harps of the most beautiful and perfect construction. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

Vermeer and Terburg immortalised Dutch ladies at their spinets; Albert ❋ Unknown (1903)

No mathematical instrument maker was to be found in Glasgow, but Watt entered the service of a kind of jack-of-all-trades, who called himself an "optician" and sold and mended spectacles, repaired fiddles, tuned spinets, made fishing-rods and tackle, etc. ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)

During the eighteenth century, when Edinburgh was almost more completely the centre of society than ever before, the old tunes were sung by ladies as much as by maid-servants, and the delicate old spinets performed a soft accompaniment to ballads of the "Ewebuchting" and of the "Corn Rigs," and prolonged the pathetic notes of "Waly, waly" and the trembling wail of the "Flowers of the Forest" in the finest houses as in the humblest. ❋ George Reid (1862)

A letter's like the music that the ladies have for their spinets --- naething but black scores, compared to the same tune played or sung. ❋ Unknown (1822)

A letter's like the music that the ladies have for their spinets -- naething but black scores, compared to the same tune played or sung. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

A letter’s like the music that the ladies have for their spinets — naething but black scores, compared to the same tune played or sung. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Throughout Italy, they have generally little octave spinets to accompany singing in private houses, sometimes in a triangular form, but more frequently in the shape of an old virginal; of which the keys are so noisy and the tone is so feeble, that more wood is heard than wire. ❋ Various (N/A)