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: Gebethner & Wolff

Date: 1900

Village / Town: Warsaw

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland / present-day Poland

Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, ul. Kościelna 1. Bought in 1990 from Maciej Stawiński from Warsaw (who had bought it ca. 1944 in Zalesie Górne near Warsaw)

Inventory number: MHP 9/I

Description: black polished, eclectic. Chandeliers not original. Cross-, single-, double-, triple-strung. Full metal frame with hitch pin block’s armour. English sticker repetition action with overdampers

Inscriptions: Gebethner & Wolff inlaid in brass on the keyboard cover; 7008 pressed on the left side and the action frame; ME (?) stamped on the action

Measurements: height 1410, width 1555, depth 360 (660) mm

Materials: wood, metal, ivory

Keyboard compass, stops: A₂-a⁴ – 7 octaves, two pedals – piano and dampers, moderator with hand lever on the right side of the keyboard

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. 219; B. Vogel, Polskie fortepiany XIX-XX w. Kolekcja Muzeum Historii Przemysłu  w Opatówku, (Opatówek,1994)

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