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Piano
Date: Ca.
1838 - 1840
Serial #: 436
Keyboard compass:
73 notes 6
octaves
Keyboard covering: All
original ivory and ebony sharps; boxwood fronts.
Cabinet: Beautiful
crotch mahogany veneered case put on in geometric patterns at corners;
has gold stenciling around bottom of case and all down the nameboard.
Small turned wooden urns on either side of keyboard on the cheek blocks.
(These are not just decorative; they are used to pull the action out
of the piano.) Straight tapered hexagonal legs with large turning
at top and small one at bottom. Folding slat style music rack
which acts as a lid prop; also has lid props on either side inside case
which raises top higher than music rack does. One leg and pedal
lyre are replacements.
Dimensions: 71"
x 33"
Action: Has
full soundboard with single bridge; metal bearing (nutt) in treble section.
Iron hitch pin plate on right of case; conventional early square action
with overhead lever type dampers.
Needs full restoration but a very rare find
and certainly worth the effort of repairing. Nameboard stenciling
is beautiful with lions and music lyres on it. Inside the case
on the left front there is an original paper glued showing engravings
of a square piano, an upright piano, and a cabinet pipe organ all from
the 1820's to 1830's era, and evidently, all manufactured by Emilious
N. Scherr.
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