Spinet Small 320×84 Medium 640×169 Large 1024×270 Download Tiff Original 2400×632 | (521.7 KB) Description "The spinet is a keyed musical instrument much in use from 1500 to 1760. It derived its name from the spines or crowquills which, attached to levers called jacks, plucked the string and produced the tone."—Finley, 1917 Keywords instrument, key, music, musical, spine, spinet Galleries Miscellaneous Musical Instruments Source: Finley, John H. Nelson's Perpetual Loose-Leaf Encyclopedia (New York City: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1917) 11:378
