1. And what about us inveterate spinsters, us permanent bachelors?

2. The sisters were to remain spinsters for the rest of their lives.

3. You can go to the performing ensemble's website, The Bowed Piano Ensemble, and view some videos of them performing: it is a fascinating ballet, like a throng of ritual-funeral spinsters (they are all donned in black) weaving strings into the entrails of the piano-beast.