Meyer Square Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1832-1834
name: label: maker
content: Meyer, Conrad
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This square piano was made by Conrad Meyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about 1833. Meyer was trained by his father as a cabinet-maker in his native Marburg. After service for a year in the Hessian army, he came to America in 1819 and worked for piano maker, Joseph Hisky in Baltimore. Meyer moved to Philadelphia in 1823 and had a long career there. This piano is serial number 240 and has a compass of FF-f4, an English double action, felt (?) hammers, double-strings, first 7 notes wound, with tuning pins at rear, 1 pedal: dampers, an iron hitch-pin plate frame, and a rosewood (?) case.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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.315687
label: catalog number
content: 315687
label: accession number
content: 58488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano