Square piano
Date1776
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedOn nameboard, in ink:Johannes Zumpe Londini fecerunt 1776
et Buntebart Princes' Street Hannover Square
DescriptionCompass: GG-f3 (dummy GG#, 58 notes)
English single action without escapement.
Case: mahogany
Hand stops:
Right: sustain, c-f3
Middle: buff (leather)
Left: sustain, GG-b
Stringing: bichord throughout.
DimensionsLength: 1271 mm
Width: 475 mm
Overall height: 785 mm
Height of case: 175 mm
Keyboard:
Three-octave measure: 485 mm
Length of heads: 41 mm
Width of heads: 22 mm
String lengths, striking points:
GG: 1085 mm, 83 mm
C: 1001 mm, 72 mm
c: 756 mm, 51 mm
c1: 521 mm, 35 mm
c2: 301 mm, 28 mm
c3: 147 mm, 18 mm
f3: 107 mm, 22 mm
ProvenancePurcahsed in 1985 from Jackson Piano Store, Inc., Rockford, Illinois.
Published ReferencesClinkscale, Martha Novak. Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 333.
Helyard, Erin. "Clementi the Heresiarch and a 'Black Joke' of English Domestic Keyboard Culture," Keyboard Perspectives (the Yearbook of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies) IV (2011), pp. 1-26, specifically 17 (detail of the keyboard).
Kelly, Rodger S. A Catalog of European Pianos in The Shrine to Music Museum, M.M.Thesis (University of South Dakota: 1991), pp. 67-75.
Kuronen, Darcy. "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 10.
Credit LineRawlins Fund, 1985
Object number03586
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