Chickering & Sons Grand Piano: Museum Object and Cultural History
Chickering & Sons Grand Piano: date made: 1857. maker: Chickering & Sons. Object Name: piano.
The object in the museum catalogue
This piano was made by Chickering & Sons in Boston, Massachusetts in 1857. Chickering called this type of piano a “parlor grand,“ but today it has come to be known as a “cocked-hat grand” because its shape from above is like that of a cocked hat. The piano is serial number 17390 and has a compass of CCC-c5, Edwin Brown, leather and felt hammers, wound and plain steel strings with 1 or 2 strings per note, 2 pedals: una corda and damper lifter, an iron frame, straight-strung, and a rosewood veneer case.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1857
- maker: Chickering & Sons
- Object Name: piano
- Physical Description: leather and felt (hammers: material)
- Physical Description: steel (strings: material)
- Physical Description: iron (frame: material)
- Physical Description: rosewood veneer (case: material)
- Measurements: overall: 97 cm x 140 cm x 200.3 cm; 38 3/16 in x 55 1/8 in x 78 7/8 in
- place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- ID Number: 1983.0377.01
- accession number: 1983.0377
- catalog number: 1983.0377.01
- Credit Line: Gift of Florence and Franklin Wallin
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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