![]() This successful manufacturer produced ‘The Musette’ spinet and cost a princely sum of around $300. ![]() (This company later became Baldwin Pianos). The company, then called ‘Winter & Co’ later became the more renowned ‘Aeolian-American Corporation’. If accounts are to be believed the first spinet piano came up for sale to the public in May of 1935. This limited the options for the instrument when it came to performances in larger venues than the home. As you might expect the volume produced by the spinet piano was not even close to that of a grand or upright. The bass notes had a particularly poor tone quality that may have contributed to the decline of the instrument. The strings were by necessity shorter to be easily accommodated in the cabinet and this, in turn, made the quality of the sound produced by the spinet piano quite considerably inferior to that of even the humble upright piano. Given the smaller dimensions of the spinet piano, there were also limits in terms of its tonal response.
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