Nunns Upright Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1824-1833
name: label: maker
content: Robert & William Nunns
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This upright piano was made by Robert and William Nunns in New York, New York about 1830. It is a small cottage piano about 42 inches high. The metal frame would suggest that this piano was modernized at some time. This piano is serial number 1223 and has a compass of FF-f4, tape-check upright action, felt hammers, single-strings, some wound, 2 pedals: keyboard shift and dampers, metal frame, straight-strung, and a mahogany (veneer?) case.
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.315698
label: catalog number
content: 315698
label: accession number
content: 58488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (hammers: material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (frame: material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (veneer?) (case: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 1/2 in x 45 3/4 in x 22 3/4 in; 107.95 cm x 116.205 cm x 57.785 cm