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Square piano

Date: 1871 ca.
Place Made:New Haven, Connecticut, United States, North America
Serial No: 5186
DescriptionCompass: AAA-c5
Two pedals: moderator, dampers

American single action.

Five separate bridges;
AAA-E
F-f?
g-a?1
a1-b2
c3-c5
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesKoster, John. “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. 301-302.
Object number: 03583