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Square piano
Maker: Charles Albrecht
Date: 1795 ca.
Place Made:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Serial No: none
SignedOn nameboard: Charles Albrecht fecit Philadelphia
DescriptionCompass: FF-f3 (five octaves, 60 notes, no GG-flat)
The case is made of solid mahogany.
Nameplate of mahogany with inlaid satinwood.
The lid and stand are not original.
Prellmechanik action without escapement.
Underdampers with damper mechanism consisting of a horizontal rod that lowers the dampers from the strings. The controlling mechanism is missing.
Stringing: bichord throughout (strings missing).
Wood identification:
Soundboard: Pinus strobus (Eastern white pine)
Key lever: Liriodendron tulipifera (yellow poplar)
Bottom: Pinus (Southern yellow pine group)
The case is made of solid mahogany.
Nameplate of mahogany with inlaid satinwood.
The lid and stand are not original.
Prellmechanik action without escapement.
Underdampers with damper mechanism consisting of a horizontal rod that lowers the dampers from the strings. The controlling mechanism is missing.
Stringing: bichord throughout (strings missing).
Wood identification:
Soundboard: Pinus strobus (Eastern white pine)
Key lever: Liriodendron tulipifera (yellow poplar)
Bottom: Pinus (Southern yellow pine group)
DimensionsLength: 61 ½”
Width: 21”
Width: 21”
ProvenancePurchased in1988 from Leonard Condit, Grand Island, Nebraska, who found the piano in an old barn in Kansas.
Terms
Credit Line: Purchase funds gift of Jeannette G. Abbey, 1988
Not on view
Published ReferencesClinkscale, Martha Novak. Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 4.
"Jeannette Abbey Donates Funds for Rare Pianos," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (October 1988), p. 2.
Kuronen, Darcy. "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 11.
"Jeannette Abbey Donates Funds for Rare Pianos," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (October 1988), p. 2.
Kuronen, Darcy. "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 11.
Object number: 04430