Grand piano
Maker
Ignace Pleyel & Cie
Date1832
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.1864
SignedOn nameboard:Médaille d’Or
Ignace Pleyel et Cie
Facteurs de Pianos et de Harpes du Roi
Á Paris, Rue Cadet. No 9.
MarkingsStamped on wrest plank in bass and on bottom under keyboard: 1864
At bass of action rail: Deuoghoc
Illegible ink inscription at bass end of wrestplank.
DescriptionCompass: CC-f4 (6+ octaves)
Two pedals: una corda and dampers. English grand piano action.
CC to EE unichord; FF to E-flat bichord, E-f4 trichord.
Bridge divided at G-sharp/A.
Cast-iron hitch-pin plate from e1 to top, from which there are three iron struts to the wrest plank. There are also iron struts under the soundboard from the belly rail to the tail and bent side.
Soundboard veneered in mahogany.
DimensionsDimensions excluding moldings:
Length: 2407 mm
Width: 1223 mm
Three-octave measure of keyboard: 490 mm
ProvenanceFormerly owned by Baron Robert Fagel (1771-1856), a Dutch minister of state in Paris, 1815-1832, who bought the piano on September 1, 1832.
Purchased from Edwin Beunk, Enschede, Netherlands, 2002.
Published ReferencesLarson, André P., “Recent Acquisitions,” National Music Museum Newsletter 29, No. 3 (August 2002) p. 6.
Larson, André P. Beethoven & Berlioz, Paris & Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789-1848. With essay by John Koster. Exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 12-November 2, 2003. Vermillion: National Music Museum 2003. Page 77.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 2002
Object number10106
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