Three of the four virginals in his collection are Italian. The keyboards were the organs, virginals, and harpsichord. Keyboard instruments such as harpsichords, clavichords, dulcimers and virginals were played. The virginals (or virginal) is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. There was no such "standard decoration" for Italian virginals. There are very few surviving English virginals, all of them late. The specific Italian word for a virginals is "spinetta a tabola". After settling, Philips married and gained a precarious living by teaching the virginals to children. Both Italian and northern schools produced a miniature virginals called the "ottavino". Both pieces are closely linked to "Virginals" in their mechanical-acoustic nature. Ottavini are small spinets or virginals at four-foot pitch. She played the lute, virginals, sang, danced, and even claimed to have composed dance music. Catherine was young, joyous and carefree; Mannox had taught her to play the virginals. The collections include harpsichords, virginals, spinets, organs, fortepianos, harps, lutes, citterns and guitars. These are sometimes called 'mother-and-child' or 'double' virginals.