A description and history of the pianoforte and of the older keyboard stringed instruments . m, continuing his numerical series. The spinet in theillustration is numbered 1676, | and was given by Handel to a friend * Musical Instruments, Historic, Eare, and Unique, by A. J. Hipkins,plate XX., drawn by W. Gibb. t Eeissmann, Dr. August, Illustrirte Geschichte der Deutschen , 1881. + Athenceum, HandelsHarpsichords, A. , ,917, September 22,1883, pp. 378-9 ; and Musical Times under the same title, December 14, 1893,pp. 30-33. 72 THE SPINET. jiamed Leamon (perhaps Anglicise
A description and history of the pianoforte and of the older keyboard stringed instruments . m, continuing his numerical series. The spinet in theillustration is numbered 1676, | and was given by Handel to a friend * Musical Instruments, Historic, Eare, and Unique, by A. J. Hipkins,plate XX., drawn by W. Gibb. t Eeissmann, Dr. August, Illustrirte Geschichte der Deutschen , 1881. + Athenceum, HandelsHarpsichords, A. , ,917, September 22,1883, pp. 378-9 ; and Musical Times under the same title, December 14, 1893,pp. 30-33. 72 THE SPINET. jiamed Leamon (perhaps Anglicised from Lehmaau), who came withliim from Germany and ultimately settled in Norfolk, and from hisdescendants it came into my possession. The Hitchcocks made their spinets with the then unprecedentedcompass of five octaves, from G to g\ They abolished in theirinstruments the sound-holes in the bellies with the beautifulknots or roses cut in them; and in both harpsichords andspinets they inserted in the sharps or raised keys slips of thecolour and material of the naturals. In Mr. Boddingtons. SPINET OR HAIUSICHORD JACK. Collection there is a Haward spinet/ dated or numbered 1687,with black naturals and white sharps, the latter with a strip ofblack in them; even the great London harpsichord maker, Shudi(Tschudi), showed his approval of this fashion by adopting it in theharpsichords he made in 1766 for Frederick the Greats NewPalace at Potsdam. There were other favourite spinet makers * Catalogue of Musical Instruments, principally illustrative of the History ofthe Pianoforte ; the property of Henry Boddington. Collected by J. KendrickPyne (Manchester, 1888), No. YHI. ? THE VIKGINAIj. 73 during the last century, among whom Slade, Baudin, Mahoon (one of whose harpsichords appears in Hogarths Kakes Progress ), and Harris may be named. The latest date I have for a spinet made in London is 1784. It was probably the last made anywhere, until Metzler and Co. constructed one for Mr. Char
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