Dulcken Grand Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1785 - 1790
name: label: maker
content: Dulcken, Jean-Louis
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This grand piano was made by Jean-Louis Dulcken in Munich, Germany around 1790. There is an inscription in ink on the soundboard, discovered during a restoration in 1985, that reads “Dulchen in München.” The piano also has a spurious Stein label on the soundboard. The piano has a compass of FF-g3, Viennese action, with back checks on rail, deerskin on wood core hammers, brass and iron strings, 2 strings for each note, 2 knee levers: both damper lifters, wood frame, straight-strung, and a cherry veneer case.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Munich
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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.303537
label: accession number
content: 62559
label: catalog number
content: 303537
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: deerskin on wood (hammers material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass; iron (strings material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: cherry veneer (case material)