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: Małecki & Szreder

Date: ca. 1864-65

Village / Town: Warsaw

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland (present-day Poland)

Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, 1 Kościelna St. 1986, bought from Monika Kosierkiewicz, Kielce. From the 19^th  century on, it belonged to the Daszyński family in Kielce, during the (20^th c.) interwar period owned by Czesława, wife of Poland prime minster Feliks Daszyński, after the World War II to her sister-in-law Zofia Janina

Inventory number: MHP 4/I

Description: walnut veneered. Straight-, single-, double-, triple-strung, composite frame with four stress bars and a capo tasto bar for the highest half of strings. Viennese action with lever dampers

Inscriptions: on the nameboard inlaid in brass with geometrical-floral decoration: MAŁECKI & SZREDER / w Warszawie; on the soundboard black painted: Małecki & Szreder / w Warszawie / № Domu 1779 / № 147; on the checkers rail’s back pencilled: F. Schmidt Kielce; Czesław Tłuszczyński / Stroiciel for. i pianin / Kielce d. 21/II r. 29. r. 30. r. 32.

Measurements: height 360 (890), width 1360, depth 2160 mm

Materials: wood, metal, ivory

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

Catalog card by: Benjamin Vogel

Bibliography: B. Vogel, Polskie fortepiany XIX-XX w. Kolekcja Muzeum Historii Przemysłu  w Opatówku, (Opatówek, 1994); B. Vogel, Fortepian polski. Budownictwo fortepianów na ziemiach polskich od poł. XVIII w. do II wojny światowej, (Warszawa, 1995), p. 278-79

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