Editing Harpsichord (section)

===Spinet===
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A spinet is a harpsichord with the strings set at an angle (usually about 30 degrees) to the keyboard. The strings are too close together for the jacks to fit between them. Instead, the strings are arranged in pairs, and the jacks are in the larger gaps between the pairs. The two jacks in each gap face in opposite directions, and each plucks a string adjacent to the gap.

The English diarist [[Samuel Pepys]] mentions his "tryangle" several times. This was not the percussion instrument that we call [[triangle (musical instrument)|triangle]] today; rather, it was a name for octave-pitched spinets, which were triangular in shape.