Haberacker Square Piano
date: label: date made
content: 1818 - 1822
name: label: maker
content: Haberacker, John
notes: label: Description
content: This square piano was made by John Haberacker in Reading, Pennsylvania around 1818-1822. Little is known of this piano maker except that he was part of an active group of Reading builders giving competition to Philadelphia, which in the late 1820s was still the leading piano manufacturing city in the nation. This piano has a compass of FF-f3, a double action without escapement, leather hammers, double-strings throughout with tuning pins on the right, 1 pedal: dampers (attached to a center post), and a wood frame. The case veneer is crotch-figured mahogany..
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Reading
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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.299834
label: catalog number
content: 299834
label: accession number
content: 61285
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piano