grand piano
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: unknown
Date: ca. 1840-45
Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland / present-day Poland
Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, ul. Kościelna 1. Bought in 1991 from Ryszard Świadek from Kłodzko (who had bought it there ca. 1950)
Inventory number: MHP 13/I
Description: walnut veneered. Straight-, double-, triple-strung; composite frame with two stress bars and a treble capotasto bar. Viennese action with rack dampers. Instrument shortened by cutting the tail by about 500-700 mm, adding a metal rest pin block for the lower part of strings and a bass stress bar (or both bars). Nameplate missing
Measurements: height 340 (900), width 1270, depth 1730 mm
Materials: wood, metal, ivory
Keyboard compass, stops: C1-a4 – 6½ 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. 204-05
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