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- Title
VIRGINAL JACKS.
- Authors
Moore, Gene M.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the usage of the word "jack" by dramatists and poets William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. In connection with early keyboard instruments like the harpsichord and the virginal, it refers to an upright piece of wood fixed to the back of the key-lever and fitted with a quill which plucked the string as the jack rose on the key's being pushed down. It would indeed be an error to confuse the jacks with the keys, but in this instance the mistake is not that of Shakespeare and Jonson, but of their editors.
- Subjects
MUSICAL instruments; JONSON, Ben, ca. 1573-1637; DRAMATISTS; LOCKS &; keys; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; HARPSICHORD
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1985, Vol 32, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/32-1-31