Grand piano
Maker
Anton Martin Thym
Date1815 ca.
Place MadeVienna, Austria, Europe
Serial No.94
SignedAnt. Mark. Thÿm
Vienne No. 94DescriptionCompass: FF-f4
Seven pedals: una corda, harp, bassoon, damper, strong moderator, medium moderator, and Janissary (bells and bass drum).
DimensionsSpine: 89.5” Lid stick: 31.5”
Width at keyboard: 41”Height of case: 12”
Tail: 12” Height with legs but without lid: 33”
Cheek: 26.5” including both bandings
Length: 2227mm
Width: 1155mm
Overall height: 855mm
Height of case: 311mm
Spine thickness: 16.5mm
Bentside thickness: 19mm
Tail length: 308mm
Tail thickness: 18.5mm
Angle between tail and spine: 87 degrees
Bridge height: 20mm
Bridge thickness: 19mm
Hammer moldings (measurements taken at head, which is widest point):
Bass: 44mm long, 11mm thick, 8mm wide
Treble: 46mm long, 2.5mm thick, 7mm wide
Keyboard:
Three-octave measure: 475mm
Length of heads: 42mm
Width of heads: 21mm
String lengths, stiking points:
FF: 1720mm, 135mm
C: 1550mm, 124mm
c: 1046mm, 96mm
c1: 550mm, 60mm
c2: 267mm, 26mm
c3: 138mm, 11mm
c4: 83mm, 10mm
f4: 68mm, 8mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Tony Bingham, London.
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), pp. 19, 42, and 44.
Rodger S. Kelly, A Catalog of European Pianos in The Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. Thesis (University of South Dakota: 1991), pp. 28-34.
Darcy Kuronen, "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), pp. 7 & 10.
"Viennese Grand Piano Will Debut on November 7," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (October 1993), pp. 1-2.
André P. Larson, "Grand Piano, Anton Markus Thÿm, Vienna, ca. 1810-15," South Dakota Musician 28, No. 1 (Fall 1993), cover and p. 22.
Martha Novak Clinkscale, Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 298.
Edward Kottick, "Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums," Continuo, Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 1996), pp. 20-21.
André P. Larson, Beethoven: Musical Treasures from The Age of Revolution and Romance, with essays by John Eliot Gardner, William Meredith, and Gerhard Stradner, exhibition catalog, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California, January 30-March 21, 1999 (Santa Ana: The Bowers Museum, 1999), back cover, inside back cover, back of title page, pp. 4 and 36.
André P. Larson, "Beethoven & Berlioz . . . Major Exhibition to Open in Sioux Falls on September 12," National Music Museum Newsletter 30, No. 3 (August 2003), p. 3.
André P. Larson, Beethoven & Berlioz, Paris & Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789-1848, with essay by John Koster, exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 12-November 2, 2003 (Vermillion: National Music Museum 2003), pp. 18, 74, and 75.
Timothy D. Miller. The Origins and Development of the Pedal Steel Guitar. M.M. Thesis. Vermillion: University of South Dakota, 2007.
Lammers, Dirk. “Filled with Rare Instruments, SD’s National Music Museum Looks to Raise $15M for Revamp.” Associated Press, Published: 17 February 2013. As seen on Washington Post website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/filled-with-rare-instruments-sds-national-music-museum-looks-to-raise-15m-to-revamp/2013/02/17/8c29ca62-7929-11e2-9c27-fdd594ea6286_story.html as seen on 18 February 2013. (This instrument is shown in a photograph that accompanies this article)
RECORDINGS
Skyrm, Suzanne. Drums, Bells, and Whistles - Viennese Music on the Thym Piano. National Music Museum, 2016.
On September 15, 2013, the piano was featured in a performance of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata by Christopher O'Riley. From the Top program 273.
https://fromthetop.org/show/vermillion-sd-276/
Credit LineRawlins Fund, 1985
Object number03587
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