Square Piano by Clementi & Company

Maker:
Clementi & Co
Number of manuals:
One
Year:
1817
Museum:
National Music Museum, North America
Date Range
1800-1850
Current Location:
North America
Material:
Mahogany
Painter:
Pedals:
Catalogue Number:
CEP-8123
Origin:
England
Type:
Square Piano
A standard square piano with the usual English square-piano escapement action. Compass FF-c4 (5+ octaves; 68 notes); ivory naturals with maple molding in front, ebony sharps; one pedal to raise the dampers. Bichord stringing throughout. Mahogany case with geometrical stringing; gilt cast-metal leaf-and-dart molding at the lower edge; nameboard veneered in satinwood with a gold circle for the inscription, surrounded by leaves and berries in gold and black; typical fretwork in the nameboard and in the triangular area behind the wrest plank; three drawers with evidently non-original lion-head pulls; six reeded screw-on legs with gilt metal collars and brass casters; gilt metal rosettes on the blocks over the legs; folding music rack on back of the nameboard.