Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 496
front. The tops of these instruments were so thin that in most cases warpingcannot be prevented in a modern house, where the air is too dry for thegood of any furniture. A method of cutting very fine parallel lines, with asaw, on the under side of a warped top is advised. The cuts stop shortof… … A HARPSICHORD, that is, a harp-shaped instrument of music. It is alarger and more elaborate, and a better instrument than the spinet. It wasthe immediate precursor of the piano. Some of these instruments were verylarge—even exceeding in this respect the modern piano. There were spinets and…
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