Square piano
Maker
Steinway & Sons
Date1872
Place MadeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Serial No.25577
SignedSteinway & Sons / New YorkDescriptionCompass: 85 notes, AAA-a4
2 pedals: moderator, dampers
DimensionsLength: 2018 mm
Width: 995 mm
Height of case: 345 mm
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.
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.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01215
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