In England, builders included John Player, Thomas Barton, Charles Haward, Stephen Keene, Cawton Aston, and Thomas Hitchcock.

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′, 1 × 4′, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet. The spinettone was a local success among the musicians of the Medici court (Montanari 2002), and Cristofori eventually built a total of four of them.^[1]

Spinets are occasionally made today, sometimes from kits, and serve the same purpose they always have, of saving money and space.

According to piano historian Arthur Loesser (1954), the first spinet piano was offered to the public in May 1935, by an American manufacturer Loesser does not identify. The instrument was initially a success, being the only kind of piano that many people could afford in the depths of the Great Depression. (According to Loesser, the price could be less than $300, "about twenty-five percent lower than ... a small upright of 1924.") Loesser notes that the spinet was not entirely new, as very small pianos had been manufactured at various times in the 19th century.

After the 1930s, many people still continued to purchase spinets; a 1947 study showed that about 50 percent of all pianos sold during that production year were pianos strung vertically of 37 inches in height or less.^[4] The spinet enjoyed decades of popularity after the 1930s, but production was halted in the early 1990s.

A clavichord, a European stringed keyboard musical instrument, was developed from the medieval monochord, an earlier keyboard.
It was used heavily from around 1400 to 1800, the renaissance, baroque and the classical eras, before being revived in the 20th century. Very similar to the Harpsichord, as the only difference is that the strings are struck on the clavichord, whereas the strings are plucked on the harpsichord.

The clavichord is usually a rectangular shaped instrument with normally high decorated cases and lids. The strings ran horizontally across the keyboard.

The strings on the clavichord are usually made from brass. The bridge of the instrument was usually constructed with wood. Other parts of the clavichord, like the keys and the blade were also normally constructed with brass.

In England, builders included John Player, Thomas Barton, Charles Haward, Stephen Keene, Cawton Aston, and Thomas Hitchcock.

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′, 1 × 4′, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet. The spinettone was a local success among the musicians of the Medici court (Montanari 2002), and Cristofori eventually built a total of four of them.^[1]

Spinets are occasionally made today, sometimes from kits, and serve the same purpose they always have, of saving money and space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinet

In England, builders included John Player, Thomas Barton, Charles Haward, Stephen Keene, Cawton Aston, and Thomas Hitchcock.

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′, 1 × 4′, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet. The spinettone was a local success among the musicians of the Medici court (Montanari 2002), and Cristofori eventually built a total of four of them.^[1]

Spinets are occasionally made today, sometimes from kits, and serve the same purpose they always have, of saving money and space.