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The spinet was later developed into the spinettone ("big spinet") by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), the inventor of the piano. The spinettone incorporated multiple choirs of strings, with a disposition of 1 × 8 ft, 1 × 4 ft, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet .
Bookmatching is the practice of matching two (or more) wood or stone surfaces, so that two adjoining surfaces mirror each other, giving the impression of an opened book. [ 1 ] Overview
The Lowrey organ is an electronic organ, named after its developer, Frederick C. Lowrey (1871–1955), a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur. [2] Lowrey's first commercially successful full-sized electronic organ, the Model S Spinet or Berkshire, came to market in 1955, the year of his death. [ 1 ]
The spinnerets of an Australian garden orb weaver spider. Black spinneret of Phidippus adumbratus visible below red abdomen. A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.
The third generation of space-age stage Electone models. The EX-1 and EX-2 sold for ¥3,600,000 and ¥2,600,000, respectively. [10] 1977 — E-70 One of the first home-based organs to feature Yamaha's PASS (Pulse Analog Synthesis System) in a console cabinet. The E-70's architecture resembles the famous CS-80 synthesizer, though it lacked ...
Peter Eisenman was born to Jewish parents on August 11, 1932, in Newark, New Jersey. [2] [3] As a child, he attended Columbia High School located in Maplewood, New Jersey.He transferred into the architecture school as an undergraduate at Cornell University and gave up his position on the swimming team in order to commit full-time to his studies.
Dominique Pélicot, 72, is facing renewed questioning regarding an attempted rape and a murder case dating back to the 1990s, according to reports
Cawton Aston (active 1693 – 1733) was an English builder of spinets.. He was the seventh and last apprentice of instrument builder John Player (1636 - 1707), and the only one to set up his own business. [1]