Upright Harp Piano
date: label: Date made
content: 1850 - 1875
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This piano’s maker is unknown, but was made in the United States around 1850-1875. It is a harp piano, similar to the two Kuhn & Ridgeway uprights in the collection. This piano has a compass of CC-c5, tape-check action, felt (?) hammers, wound single-strings CC-FF#, wound double-strings GG-G, plain double-strings G#-c5, 2 pedals: keyboard shift (?) and dampers, metal frame on each side of the pin block, metal tension bar from pin block to lower frame with some wood in the lower frame, strings outside the case from the keyboard to the pin block, dark veneer lower case, an upper case which is heavily carved, gilded post on left with diagonal garland, and decorative metal on the bentside.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States
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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 Mrs. J. Ryan Devereux
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.315469
label: accession number
content: 65526
label: catalog number
content: 315469
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 91 1/4 in x 58 1/4 in x 24 in; 231.775 cm x 147.955 cm x 60.96 cm