Square piano
Maker
Charles Albrecht
Date1795 ca.
Place MadePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedOn nameboard: Charles Albrecht fecit PhiladelphiaDescriptionCompass: 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)
DimensionsLength: 61 ½”
Width: 21”
ProvenancePurchased in1988 from Leonard Condit, Grand Island, Nebraska, who found the piano in an old barn in Kansas.
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.
Credit LinePurchase funds gift of Jeannette G. Abbey, 1988
Object number04430
On View
Not on view
1790 ca.
