Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This square piano has an unknown maker, but was made in Germany around 1770. It has a very unusual instrument with a unique hammer design and iron rods as jacks and hammer shanks. The absence of dampers (there is no indication there ever were any) suggests that the piano should be identified as a “pantalon.” This piano has a compass of C-f3, simple jack action, no dampers, leather balls on iron hooks at the end of hammer shanks, double-strings, with tuning pins on right, 1 hand stop: lute stop that is brought down to strings, wood frame, and a brown painted conifer case.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Hugo Worch
- ca 1768 - 1775
- ID Number
- MI.303538
- accession number
- 62559
- catalog number
- 303538
- Object Name
- piano
- Physical Description
- lead (hammers material)
- place made
- Germany
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Pianos
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605979
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-4d28-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
