Steinway & Sons Grand Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: Steinway & Sons
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This grand piano was made by Steinway & Sons in New York in 1936. Called the “Medium” grand, this piano is 5'7" in length and offers the best of both worlds, a professional quality piano appropriate for a home both in size and acoustics. This piano is a model M with serial number 288983. The piano has a compass of AAA-c5, Steinway accelerated action, felt hammers, steel strings, single-, double-, and triple-strung, 3 pedals: una corda, sustention, and dampers, a one-piece-iron frame, cross-strung, and a dark 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 C. Malcolm Watkins, in memory of Lura Woodside Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0935.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0935.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0935
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)