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Square piano
Maker: William Knabe & Company
Date: 1891
Place Made:Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North America
Model: Style 10
Serial No: 33795
SignedWm Knabe & Co / BALTIMORE / Patent
MarkingsStenciled on soundboard: Wm Knabe & Co. / GOLD / MEDAL PIANOS / BALTIMORE, MD. / No 33795
DescriptionRosewood
88 keys
AAA-c5 (71/3 octaves)
2 pedals: moderator, dampers
88 keys
AAA-c5 (71/3 octaves)
2 pedals: moderator, dampers
ProvenanceGiven to Maude Siler, mother of Max Siler Wehrly, on her birthday, September 22, 1891, by her parents, David & Mary Jane Lear Siler. Moved to Arlington, Virginia, March 1956. Shipped from the Baltimore factory May 4, 1891.
Terms
Credit Line: Gift of Max Siler Wehrly, 1980
Not on view
Published References"Virginia Man Donates 1891 Piano by Knabe of Baltimore," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (October 1980), p. 3.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 57.
Darcy Kuronen, "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 11.
John Koster, “The Technological Development of the Piano in American Squares,” 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. 303-304.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 57.
Darcy Kuronen, "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 11.
John Koster, “The Technological Development of the Piano in American Squares,” 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. 303-304.
Object number: 02673