Square piano
Maker
Geronimo Bordas
Date1830 ca.
Place MadeBarcelona, Spain, Europe
SignedGERÓNIMO BORDAS / EN / BARCELONA.DescriptionFF-g4 (6+ octaves).
One knee lever (possibly replacing an original pedal) to raise the dampers.
German-type action (Prellmechanik with brass Kapseln) without escapement.
DimensionsLength: 1576 mm
Width: 690 mm
Height of case: 287 mm
ProvenanceBought in Spain before 1959 by Dean Dreyer, an antique dealer in Atlanta, Georgia, who brought it back in a U.S. navy vessel. Dreyer died in 1993 and the piano was willed to Mr. Stein.
Published ReferencesJohn Koster, "Third Iberian Piano Enters the Museum's Collections," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. XXIII, No. 3 (January 1996), pp. 6-7.
Susanne Skyrm, ed., with assistance from Calvert Johnston and John Koster, Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music for Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, or Clavichord (Colfax, North Carolina: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2010), p. 41.
Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, “Some Aspects of the Square Piano in Spain,” in Geschichte und Bauweise des Tafelklaviers (23. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium, October 2002; Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 68), ed. by Boje E. Hans Schmuhl and Monika Lustig (Augsburg: Wiáner-Verlag, and Michaelstein: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein – Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis, 2006), pp. 261-282, specifically pp. 268-269.
Credit LineGift of William Stein, in memory of Dean Dreyer, 1994
Object number05797
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1790 ca.
1790 ca.
