Doll Upright Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1898 - 1902
name: label: maker
content: Doll, Jacob
notes: label: Description
content: This upright piano was made by Jacob Doll in New York, New York around 1898-1901. Jacob Doll came to New York from his native Germany at the age of fourteen and found work in a wood-working company. In 1885 he established a piano making factory in New York. This piano has a compass of AAA-c5, standard upright action, felt hammers, single, double, and triple-strings, 3 pedals, one-piece cast-iron frame, cross-strung, and an ebonized case highly decorated with eagles at the top corners.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Pianos
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hugo Worch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.299853
label: accession number
content: 61285
label: catalog number
content: 299853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ebonized (case: material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast-iron (frame: material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (hammers: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 68 in x 65 1/2 in x 28 1/2 in; 172.72 cm x 166.37 cm x 72.39 cm