Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 276
o vary upon dateswhen the Hitchcocks made spinets. Mr. A. J.Hipkins of London, the well-known authority uponpianos, harpsichords, and spinets, writes me that he 252 Furniture of the Olden Time dates the Thomas Hitchcock spinets from 1664 to1703, and those of John Hitchcock, the son ofThomas, from… … Illus. 217. — Thomas Hitchcock Spinet, about 1690. By the latter half of the eighteenth century pro-ficiency upon various musical instruments was notuncommon. John Adams in 1771 speaks of ayoung man of twenty-six, as a great proficient inmusic, plays upon the flute, fife, harpsichord, spinet,etc.;…
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