Müller Square Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1782 - 1788
name: label: maker
content: Muller, Lorenz Heinrich
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This square piano was made by Lorenz Heinrich Müller in Bremen, Germany, around 1810. Müller appears as a piano maker in Bremen directories from 1804-1822. From 1823 to 1830, his widow handled a firm that rented pianos. It is believed that this is the only surviving piano by Müller. This piano is serial number 83 and has a compass of FF-c4, Viennese action, leather hammers, single-string first octave, the rest are double-strings, with tuning pins on the right, 2 knee levers: “piano” stop and dampers, wood frame, and a wood case.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Germany: Bremen, Bremen
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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.315656
label: catalog number
content: 315656
label: accession number
content: 58488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano