Grand Piano by Stein (frere et soeur)

Technical description: Wing-shaped case on 4 detachable carved legs, wood; compass, 5 octaves, 2 semitones, with black naturals, white sharps; hammers divided at b-c1 by wood gap spacer over which runs a pair of unstruck strings that have their own damper; ebony natural heads have double score lines, tails are ebony or stained pear, accidentals of stained pear with bone tops; hammer shanks and escapement levers almost identical with those of Stein piano at Toledo Art Museum; keyboard of quarter-sawn spruce, having no buttons at balance point, but the keys are mortised for the pins; kapsels, shanks, escapement levers, damper jacks and blocks of pear; hammers of beech covered with 1 layer of leather (thick in bass, thin in treble); typical Stein box guide at rear of keys; soundboard of quarter-sawn spruce with bridge and nut of maple or beech painted black; top of pinblock veneered to match soundboard, but with grain running from bass to treble.Credit: Met Museum