Lauterer Grand Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1834 - 1836
name: label: maker
content: Lauterer, Franz
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This grand piano was made by Franz Lauterer in Vienna, Austria in the 1820s. Only two of his pianos, both Empire style grands from the 1820s, are known to be extant, one at the Smithsonian and the other at the Bachaus in Eisenach, Germany. This piano has a compass of FF-g4, Viennese action, without back checks, leather hammers, brass and iron strings, triple-strung, 5 pedals: bassoon, moderator, Janissary bell, dampers, and Janissary drum (stops missing), wood frame with two iron tension bars (not original), straight-strung, and a walnut (?) veneer case in the Empire style with a rounded cheek.
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.303535
label: catalog number
content: 303535
label: accession number
content: 62559
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (hammers material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass and iron (strings material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: walnut (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 50 1/2 in x 90 in; 40.64 cm x 128.27 cm x 228.6 cm