Spinet: alternatives and connections

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is t…

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…

A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generall…

Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in mil…

A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension brid…

A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…

A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silve…

A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments…

Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal mu…

Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.

A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure…

Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.