grand 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: Arnold Fibiger

Date: ca. 1938-39

Village / Town: Kalisz

Country: Poland

Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, 1 Kościelna St. 1991, bought from Jan Nieciałek, Białystok

Inventory number: MHP 30/I

Description: black lacquered. Cross-, single-, double-, triple-strung, full frame casted together with hitch pin block’s armour and a capo tasto bar for the highest half of registers. English double repetition action with overdampers

Inscriptions: on the keyboard cover inlaid in brass: ARNOLD FIBIGER; in many places pressed: 20041; on the action’s frame: 310553, 4381; on two bass key levers pressed: 80; on the A₂ key lever stamped: Zbigniew Mielżyński / Stroiciel - korektor Fortepianów i Pianin / ul. Majkowska 4 m. 5 / tel. .....  62-810 Kalisz.

Measurements: height 410 (1025), width 1555, depth 1850 mm

Materials: wood, metal, celluloid

Keyboard compass, stops: A₂-c⁵ – 7¼ octaves, two pedals – una corda 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), pp. 102-06

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