Stein Grand Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1824 - 1826
name: label: maker
content: Stein, Andre
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This grand piano was made by André Stein in Vienna, Austria around 1824-1826. Matthäus Andreas Stein, the twelfth child of the famous early piano maker Johann Andreas Stein, changed his middle name to the French form André in the early 1800s when he opened his own shop in Vienna. This piano has a compass of FF-f4, Viennese action, without checks, leather hammers, brass strings, double- or triple-strings for each note, 4 pedals: keyboard shift, bassoon, moderator, and dampers, wood frame, straight-strung, and a mahogany case in the Empire style.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Matthäus Andreas Stein (b. Augsburg, Germany,1776; d. Vienna, Austria 1842) the twelfth child of the famous early piano maker Johann Andreas Stein, changed his first name to the French form André in the early 1800's when he opened his own shop in Vienna. Stein and his older sister Nannette Stein Streicher learned their craft from their father, and ran his shop together in Augsburg from 1792-94 during his last illness. Although both his father and elder sister achieved greater lasting fame for their work, the younger Stein achieved the title Hof-Klaviermacher in his adopted country, and his son Karl Andreas carried on the family business with distinction after his death.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
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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.316467
label: catalog number
content: 316467
label: accession number
content: 66705
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (hammers material)
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content: brass (strings material)
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content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany veneer (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/4 in x 49 in x 88 in; 41.275 cm x 124.46 cm x 223.52 cm