Square piano
Maker
William Knabe & Company
Date1891
Place MadeBaltimore, Maryland, United States, North America
ModelStyle 10
Serial No.33795
SignedWm Knabe & Co / BALTIMORE / PatentMarkingsStenciled on soundboard: Wm Knabe & Co. / GOLD / MEDAL PIANOS / BALTIMORE, MD. / No 33795
DescriptionRosewood
88 keys
AAA-c5 (71/3 octaves)
2 pedals: moderator, dampers
DimensionsLength: 2140 mm
Width: 1080 mm
Height of case: 360 mm
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.
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.
Credit LineGift of Max Siler Wehrly, 1980
Object number02673
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