Weber Upright Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1876
name: label: maker
content: Weber
label: decorator
content: Herter Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Albert Weber became Steinway’s principal competitor in the 1870s, just as the Chickering company began to falter. Weber made few technical innovations. He simply made extremely fine pianos like this 1876 upright and sold them at fair prices. Beautifully decorated by Herter Brothers, furniture designers of New York, this instrument helped Weber challenge Steinway at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The piano is serial number 9957, and has a compass of AAA-c5, tape-check upright action (probably not original), felt hammers, single-, double-, and triple-strings, cross-strung, 2 pedals: “soft” and dampers, a double iron frame, and an ebonized case with inlaid designs and gilded banding.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (bag of parts)
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: Cultures & Communities
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content: Pianos
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0360.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0360.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0360
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
label: Object Type
content: pianos
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (frame: material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (hammers: material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 138.5 cm x 155.4 cm x 66.5 cm; 54 1/2 in x 61 3/16 in x 26 3/16 in