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Re: music, virginal



Poster: Nancy Davis Kari Kyst wrote:

>Does anyone know about a stringed instrument called a
>virginal? 

I knew it was a keyboard instrument but checked Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. It says:

"a small rectangular spinet having no legs and only one wire to a note and popular in the 16th and 17th centuries- often used in pl.; also called a pair of virginals"

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