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Square Piano by Clementi & Company

Maker:

Clementi & Company

Year:

1817

Museum:

National Music Museum, North America

Date Range

1800-1850

Current Location: 

[object Object]

Material:

Mahogany

Painter:

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.

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