Scherr Square Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1824-1826
name: label: maker
content: Scherr, Emilius Nicolai
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This square piano was made by Emelius Nicolai Scherr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania around 1825. Scherr was born in Copenhagen, the son of an organ and piano builder. After an apprenticeship in Copenhagen and later working in Linz, Austria, he came to Philadelphia in 1822. Scherr worked at various addresses in Philadlphia until 1855, when he apparently retired from making musical instruments. This piano is serial number 2 and has a compass of FF-f4, a jack action with escapement, double-strings throughout, with tuning pins on the right, 1 pedal: dampers, a wood frame, and a mahogany(?) case.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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.315686
label: catalog number
content: 315686
label: accession number
content: 58488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano