Stein Square Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1829 - 1831
name: label: maker
content: Stein, Andre
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This square piano was made by André Stein in Vienna, Austria around 1830. Matthäus Andreas Stein, the twelfth child of the famous early piano maker Johann Andreas Stein, changed his middle name to the French form André in the early 1800s when he opened his own shop in Vienna. This piano is serial number 558 and has a compass of FF-f4, Viennese action, leather hammers, single-strings for first 3 notes, double-string for next 40, and triple-strings for the rest, with the tuning pins in the front, 2 pedals: moderator and dampers, wood frame, and a crotch mahogany veneer case.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
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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.315659
label: catalog number
content: 315659
label: accession number
content: 58488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano