Object Details
- Chickering & Sons
- Description (Brief)
- This piano was made by Chickering & Sons in Boston, Massachusetts in 1857. Chickering called this type of piano a “parlor grand,“ but today it has come to be known as a “cocked-hat grand” because its shape from above is like that of a cocked hat. The piano is serial number 17390 and has a compass of CCC-c5, Edwin Brown, leather and felt hammers, wound and plain steel strings with 1 or 2 strings per note, 2 pedals: una corda and damper lifter, an iron frame, straight-strung, and a rosewood veneer case.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Florence and Franklin Wallin
- 1857
- ID Number
- 1983.0377.01
- accession number
- 1983.0377
- catalog number
- 1983.0377.01
- Object Name
- piano
- Physical Description
- leather and felt (hammers: material)
- steel (strings: material)
- iron (frame: material)
- rosewood veneer (case: material)
- Measurements
- overall: 97 cm x 140 cm x 200.3 cm; 38 3/16 in x 55 1/8 in x 78 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Pianos
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_606261
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-4c94-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
