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Перевод: spinet

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спинет

Тезаурус:

1. Live played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of Ren Descartes.
2. When I was 12, my great hero was Van Cliburn because he'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition, so he was invited over and played on my spinet."
3. How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen; how she first went to France with this friend; how she hated her first few terms at university; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs; how she plays the spinet late at night, when no one can hear, and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint.
4. The jacks themselves are very slim (the very opposite of spinet jacks), affording very generous margins when backing off, even with a good-length, flexible plectrum.
5. In the middle of the century therefore there was a division in the trade, with immigrant craftsmen making only harpsichords and native makers almost wholly confined to spinet production.
6. The English makers thus became marginalized in the less prestigious field of spinet production (in which, of course, they had always been active) and their distinctive style of workmanship was perpetuated, without any obvious concessions to the Tabel tradition, by makers such as John Hitchcock, who was still active in the mid-1760s.
7. At the right moment we fling the ballroom doors open, there's the sound of a spinet, the room is ablaze with candlelight -"