During the 1960s, they manufactured Spinet, Console, Studio and Grand Pianos. He played the lute, viol, violin, flageolet, recorder and spinet to varying degrees of proficiency. Many spinet pianos still exist today, left over from their period of manufacture. Spinet models have 12- or 13-note miniature pedalboards. The tiny spinet upright was manufactured from the mid-1930s until recent times. Shortly after the debut of the spinet, the chord organ appeared. The spinet was also the bane of piano technicians. Lowrey was the leading manufacturer of this type of organs in the smaller (spinet) instruments. Console models, like spinet and chord organs, have internal speakers mounted above the pedals. Organs normally have 61 keys per manual, though some spinet models have 44 or 49. Spinet organs included the Romance series, manufactured between 1977 and 1983. The front side of the spinet contains the keyboard. The case of a bentside spinet is approximately triangular. The other major aspect of spinet design is that the strings are arranged in pairs. This is impossible in a spinet, due to the alternating orientation of the jacks.