List of Keyboards
Grand Piano by Clementi
This grand piano was made by Clementi & Co. in London, England around 1810-1820. Muzio Clementi was chiefly known as a concert pianist, composer and teacher, but he was the co-founder of a firm of piano builders which included his name in a variety of arrangements between 1798 and his death in 1832. This piano is serial number 1008, and has a compass of CC-c4, an English action, leather hammers, brass and iron strings, double- and triple-strung, 2 pedals: una corda and damper, wood frame with two iron bars in treble (probably not original), straight-strung, and a walnut veneer case (legs probably not original)
Cabinet Piano by Clementi
The Masia d'en Cabanyes in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, is home to a rare cabinet piano built by Muzio Clementi around 1820. The instrument was purchased directly from Clementi’s London workshop by Josep Anton de Cabanyes and was famously transported to Catalonia aboard a vessel carrying liquor, reflecting the international trade networks through which fine musical instruments travelled in the early nineteenth century
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