List of Keyboards
Square Piano by Longman & Broderip
This square piano was made by Longman & Broderip in London, England around 1778. The series of companies began about 1767 by James Longman never manufactured pianos but sold them and later commissioned other makers to produce pianos that carried the Longman & Broderip label. Francis Broderip joined Longman in 1775. This piano is serial number 12(?) and has a compass of FF-f3 (no FF#), an English action, leather hammers, double-strings throughout, with tuning pins on right, 3 hand stops: treble dampers, lute, and bass dampers, wood frame, and a mahogany (?) case
Credit: Smithsonian
Square Piano (Travelling) Longman & Broderip
Described as a portable model square piano. Rectangular mahogany veneered case with stringing and borders of lighter veneer (satinwood), back of case not veneered, with 4 slender, square tapered legs decorated with inlay hinged to case bottom so as to fold against bottom, nameboard decorated with floral intarsia, with Battersea white enamel nameplate in oval brass frame; note names written on natural key fronts with C keys marked G, etc., implying transposed tuning; other note names written in ink next to naturals with molded keyfronts, ebony accidentals; brass-knobbed handstop in well to left of keyboard operating damper batten; English simple action, no escapement; overhead dampers on wood arms hinged to removable panel in case back, returned by quill springs; double-strung throughout, no wound strings
Spinet by Longman & Broderip
A late 18th-century English spinet with a mitred tail. Compass: F1, G1 (without F#1) to f3, 60 notes. Owned by Sir Walter Parratt (1841–1924), organist and composer, and exhibited by him at the International Inventions Exhibition, London, in 1885.
Credit: Royal College of Music
