upright piano

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 31 Simple chordophones or zithers / 314 Board zithers / 314.1 True board zithers / 314.1-4-8 True board zithers sounded by hammers or beaters, with keyboard

Piano maker: Aleksander Oskar Fibiger

Date: ca. 1900

Village / Town: Kalisz

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland / present-day Poland

Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, ul. Kościelna 1. Bought in 1978 from Józef Kitliński from Kielce. First owner: W. Kubicki in Kielce

Inventory number: MHP 33/I

Description: walnut and Caucasian walnut veneered. Cross-, single-, double-, triple-strung. Full metal frame with hitch pin block’s armour. English repetition action with underdampers

Inscriptions: Aleksander Fibiger grooved on the keyboard cover; 14053 penciled on its back; on the frame, a logo with a lyre against the background of the sun and the no. 55; 10000 pressed on the action’s frame

Measurements: height 1300, width 1490, depth 360 (650) mm

Materials: wood, metal, plastic

Keyboard compass, stops: A₂-a⁴ – 7 octaves, two pedals – piano and dampers

Catalog card by: Benjamin Vogel

Bibliography: B. Vogel, Fortepian polski. Budownictwo fortepianów na ziemiach polskich od poł. XVIII w. do II wojny światowej, (Warszawa, 1995), pp. 214-17; B. Vogel, Polskie fortepiany XIX-XX w. Kolekcja Muzeum Historii Przemysłu  w Opatówku, (Opatówek,1994); K. Rottermund, Budownictwo instrumentów muzycznych na terenie Wielkopolski w XIX i 1. połowie XX wieku, (Poznań, 2002), p. 104

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