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Square piano with Aeolian attachment
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Square piano with Aeolian attachment
Alternate name:Combination piano/melodeon
Maker: Timothy Gilbert
Date: 1850 ca.
Place Made:Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No: 4422 (AE 1178)
DescriptionCompass: FF-a4
Four pedals: swell, dampers, buff, bellows.
Gilbert purchased the license for an "Aeolian Attachment" patented by Obed Coleman in 1844, in which a reed organ was attached to the bottom of a square piano.
Four pedals: swell, dampers, buff, bellows.
Gilbert purchased the license for an "Aeolian Attachment" patented by Obed Coleman in 1844, in which a reed organ was attached to the bottom of a square piano.
ProvenanceGift from Dr. E. E. Gardner to his wife, Julie Ann Waldo (donor’s great grandmother). After Gardner’s death, Julia married Daniel S. Waldo and went to the Dakota Territory in the early 1870’s, taking the Aeolian piano with them from their home in Michigan. Julia gave the instrument to her daughter, Blanche Waldo Kennedy, wife of C. B. Kennedy of Canton, South Dakota – it remained in Canton until 1972 when Patricia Moore moved it to Kewanee, Illinois (she is Julie Waldo’s great granddaughter). Later Moore moved it with her to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Credit Line: Gift of Patricia Moore, 1985
Not on view
Object number: 03540