. Musical instruments . y. XI \. 121 key-board. The term clavichord seems to have not unfre-quently been appHed to any stringed instrument with a key-board, no matter what its interior construction might Walther. in his Musicahsches Lexicon, Leijizig,1732, describes the virginal (or Virginale, as he calls it),in these words:— Ein Clavier vors Frauenzimmer {aclavichord for ladies). The following brief explanation of thedifference between the spinet and the clavichord may thereforebe of interest to some inquirers. The spinet (Italian, spinetta or spinetio ; French, epin
. Musical instruments . y. XI \. 121 key-board. The term clavichord seems to have not unfre-quently been appHed to any stringed instrument with a key-board, no matter what its interior construction might Walther. in his Musicahsches Lexicon, Leijizig,1732, describes the virginal (or Virginale, as he calls it),in these words:— Ein Clavier vors Frauenzimmer {aclavichord for ladies). The following brief explanation of thedifference between the spinet and the clavichord may thereforebe of interest to some inquirers. The spinet (Italian, spinetta or spinetio ; French, epinette) issaid to have derived its name from the little quill (spina) usedin its mechanism, which is the same as that of the harpsichordand the virginal, descril)ed before. The more commonly-known s])inet (Figs. 63 and 64)resembles in shape the harpsichord and the grand j) is, however, smaller than the harpsichord, and its ke}--board is placed in a somewhat oblique direction. The toneof the sjnnct was generally a fif/h hi
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