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Square piano
Maker: Clementi & Company
Date: 1817 ca.
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: The serial number, which would have been written in ink on the wrest plank, has been obliterated.
SignedOn nameboard in black on gold: New Patent / Clementi & Co, / 26, Cheapside, / LONDON
MarkingsStamped on plank to left of keyboard, which is the series of square piano: 111649
Stamped on back of nameboard and treble key cheek, which is the batch number: 12
Stamped on batten in which legs are screwed at right end, significance unknown: 4936
Stamped on back of nameboard and treble key cheek, which is the batch number: 12
Stamped on batten in which legs are screwed at right end, significance unknown: 4936
DescriptionA standard square piano with the usual English square-piano escapement action. Compass FF-c4 (5+ octaves; 68 notes); ivory naturals with maple molding in front, ebony sharps; one pedal to raise the dampers. Bichord stringing throughout. Mahogany case with geometrical stringing; gilt cast-metal leaf-and-dart molding at the lower edge; nameboard veneered in satinwood with a gold circle for the inscription, surrounded by leaves and berries in gold and black; typical fretwork in the nameboard and in the triangular area behind the wrest plank; three drawers with evidently non-original lion-head pulls; six reeded screw-on legs with gilt metal collars and brass casters; gilt metal rosettes on the blocks over the legs; folding music rack on back of the nameboard.
Dimensions(in mm): length 1677 width 588 to 590 string lengths (the longer string of the pair) c4 68½ c3 144 c2 297 c1 558 d# 796 (last brass string, original; e is an original iron string) c 877 C1224 FF1453
Terms
Credit Line: Gift of Shirley Stein, 2006
Not on view
Published ReferencesN.E. Michel, Historical Pianos, Harpsichords and Clavichords (Pico Rivera, California: the author, 1970), p. 200.
Object number: 11697