John Harris (spinet maker)
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John Harris (spinet maker)
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John Harris (17??–1772) was a Bostonian maker of spinets and harpsichords. English by birth, Harris was the son of Joseph Harris, also a maker of harpsichords and spinets. He is known to have been working in London's Red Lion Street by 1730, the year in which he received a patent for "a new invented harpsichord". The description of the instrument suggests that it has only unison stringing, but that it contained as well some sort of device for octave coupling. He later emigrated to the Thirteen C
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Bostonian maker of spinets and harpsichords
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2022-10-26T07:09:49Z
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