Crossword-Solution: SPINETS 7 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Don't you think Empire might be better than Heppelwhite? Dull gold against that pale green? It's a pity they don't make spinets nowadays.” “I believe you can get them.

Moreover, he adds, that the drum is not a necessity, but is good to keep the time equal; and that for dancing you may use violins, spinets, flutes, both traverse and 'à neuf trous' (nine-holed flute--_i.e._, a flageolet), hautboys, and, in fact, 'all sorts of instruments'; or you may sing instead.

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.

Such instruments were popular in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and were known in English as spinets during the period of their popularity.

Claviers, dulcimers, spinets, and harpsichords, belonging once upon a time to Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, are in this famous collection.