[DOC] [TLE] Virginals - Wikipedia [PAR] The virginals or virginal is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was 
popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early baroque periods. 
Contents. [hide]. 1 Description; 2 Mechanism; 3 Etymology; 4 History; 5 Types .... 
Muselars were popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and their ubiquity has been
... [DOC] [TLE] Piano History - Davide Verotta Musica [PAR] The first keyboard instrument that used strings, the clavichord, came to be in ... 
The third type of stringed keyboard instrument is the virginal, also called the 
spinet. ... in the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries, and is actually a small 
harpsichord... [DOC] [TLE] virginal | musical instrument | Britannica.com [PAR] Virginal, also called Virginals, orPair Of Virginals, musical instrument of the ... The 
smaller played at a higher pitch and could sometimes be mounted over the keys 
... Virginals were particularly popular in 16th- and 17th-century England, where... [DOC] [TLE] Virginals | Define Virginals at Dictionary.com [PAR] ... the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. ... It 
was sometimes called a pair of virginals, as an organ was a pair of organs, ... 
virginal2. /vdnl/. noun. 1. (often pl) a smaller version of the ... The keyed 
musical instrument so called from 1520s, but the reason is obscure (see virginals
). [DOC] [TLE] Baroque-Music.com | Instruments | Harpsichord [PAR] In the 20th century the harpsichord was revived for performance of music of the 
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, as well as for new compositions. ... These include 
the virginal, or virginals, a small oblong instrument; the spinet, a small polygonal 
... and in England during that era any harpsichord was called a virginal. [DOC] [TLE] The Harpsichord - Iowa State University MUSIC [PAR] early music keyboard instrument, the harpsichord. ... In the harpsichord family the 
string is plucked by a small plectrum, originally of quill. ... Found from the 
beginning of the 16th century, the Italian harpsichords were lightly constructed, ... 
The other main type of harpsichord in use from the early 17th century was the 
Flemish... [DOC] [TLE] View/Open - Smithsonian [PAR] Italian Harpsichord-Building. IN the 16th and 17th Centuries ... The first type of 
instrument described below usually has been ... bling the grand piano in shape, 
are called harpsi- chords. Of course ... polygonal virginal, a detailed description 
of one partic- ular example is .... The lowest eight keys have small wire eyes 
attached. [DOC] [TLE] World of Musical Instruments COLLECTION DVDs [PAR] A rough introduction to harpsichords by type ... The keyboard instrument in front 
of you may be a piano or a harpsichord or even .... A virginal is a rectangular, box
-typed small kind of harpsichord whose strings are set ... It was popular around 
the 16th and 17th century but became not to be used much in the 18th century. [DOC] [TLE] virginal - definition and meaning - Wordnik [PAR] virginal: Relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin; chaste. ... A small, 
legless rectangular harpsichord popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. ... An 
instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like 
the ... The so-called virginal reproduction (Parthenogenesis) offers an interesting 
form of... [DOC] [TLE] Introduction - Stephen Robinson Spinets [PAR] Two types of stringed keyboard instrument were available to the household or ... 
the harpsichord and its near relations, the spinet and virginal; and the clavichord. 
... In the harpsichord family the string is plucked by a small plectrum, originally of 
... in England and the Low Countries) in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. [DOC] [TLE] Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries [PAR] The first type of instrument described below usually has been designated in ... 
Long instruments, resembling the grand piano in shape, are called harpsichords. 
... To give a clear idea of the construction of the Italian polygonal virginal, ... of the 
16th and 17th centuries, the instrument proper is removable from its outer case. [DOC]

Question: During the 16th & 17th centuries, a small type of this instrument was called a virginal
Answer: a harpsichord