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Square piano
Maker: Steinway & Sons
Date: 1872
Place Made:New York, New York, United States, North America
Serial No: 25577
SignedSteinway & Sons / New York
DescriptionCompass: 85 notes, AAA-a4
2 pedals: moderator, dampers
2 pedals: moderator, dampers
ProvenanceBought in 1950 from Bortnem family, Lake Campbell, South Dakota; reportedly taken there in the 1870’s. Steinway sold it to A. Heyman, Sacramento, California August 17,1872.
Arne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Arne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
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Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesKoster, John. “The Technological Development of the Piano in American Squares,” 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. 302-303.
Object number: 01215