top of page

Square Piano/Tangent by Trute,C

Maker:

Trute, C

Number of manuals:

one

Year:

c.1785

Museum:

Radbon Collection

Date Range

1750-1800

Current Location: 

Germany

Material:

Painter:

Pedals:

Catalogue Number:

CEP-9579

Origin:

England

Type:

Square Piano/Tangent

The present piano is the only tangent piano by this maker and one of the 4 English pianos in total (worldwide) having the tangent action.

The tangent action is -like the English actions- a so called ’’Stoss Mechanik’’ which was widely and solely used in England (unlike Germany and Austria but also the east part of France where Stoss and Prell actions both were used) but the hammers that hit the strings from below are pivotless and jump freely in the air, guided in a register.

bottom of page