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Square piano
Maker: John Kearsing
Distributor: John J. Rickers
Date: 1825 ca.
Place Made:New York, New York, United States, North America
Serial No: 857
SignedPatent / Made by / John Kearsing / from London / for / John J. Rickers / 187 Broadway / N. York
Markingsnone
DescriptionCompass: FF-f4 (6 octaves).
One pedal: dampers
Mahogany veneer with rosewood crossbanding and brass stringing; gold-plate trim.
Six ornately carved legs.
Spruce soundboard
Bottom is pinus strobus (Eastern white pine)
One pedal: dampers
Mahogany veneer with rosewood crossbanding and brass stringing; gold-plate trim.
Six ornately carved legs.
Spruce soundboard
Bottom is pinus strobus (Eastern white pine)
ProvenanceThe piano was made for New York City musical instrument dealer John J. Rickers. It was donated to the NMM in 1981 by Marilynn L. Collins, Flossmoor, Illinois.
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn L. Collins, in memory of her father, Wyman H. Carey, 1981
Not on view
Published References"Ornately-Decorated Piano Restored to Former Elegance," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 11, No. 1 (October, 1983), p.4.
Anne Gallagher, "She Remembers Papa: One Piano's Story," The Star, (July 19,
1981), p. 4. (suburban Cook County, Illinois)
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 57.
Darcy Kuronen, "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 11.
Martha Novak Clinkscale, Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 165.
John Koster, “The Technological Development of the Piano in American Squares,” in Geschichte und Bauweise des Tafelklaviers (23. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium, October 2002; Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 68), ed. by Boje E. Hans Schmuhl and Monika Lustig (Augsburg: Wiáner-Verlag, and Michaelstein: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein – Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis, 2006), p. 294.
Anne Gallagher, "She Remembers Papa: One Piano's Story," The Star, (July 19,
1981), p. 4. (suburban Cook County, Illinois)
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 57.
Darcy Kuronen, "Keyboard Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter, Vol. VI, No. 1 (October 1991), p. 11.
Martha Novak Clinkscale, Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 165.
John Koster, “The Technological Development of the Piano in American Squares,” in Geschichte und Bauweise des Tafelklaviers (23. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium, October 2002; Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 68), ed. by Boje E. Hans Schmuhl and Monika Lustig (Augsburg: Wiáner-Verlag, and Michaelstein: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein – Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis, 2006), p. 294.
Object number: 02864