Pleyel Grand Piano: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pleyel Grand Piano: date made: 1866. maker: Pleyel, Ignaz. Object Name: piano.
The object in the museum catalogue
This grand piano was made by Pleyel in Paris, France in 1866. It was sold by Pleyel to Sr. Martin y Salazar in Madrid, who brought it to Washington, DC. when he was the Spanish ambassador. Bought from the ambassador, it came to the Smithsonian from Mrs. Richard Kashe of Washington, DC. This piano is serial number 42423 and has a compass of AAA-a4, an English grand action, felt over 3 layers of leather hammers, single-, double-, and triple-strings, 2 pedals: una corda and dampers, an iron string plate frame with tension bars, straight-strung, and a rosewood veneer case.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1866
- maker: Pleyel, Ignaz
- Object Name: piano
- Physical Description: felt (hammers: material)
- Physical Description: iron (frame: material)
- Physical Description: rosewood veneer (case: material)
- place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
- ID Number: MI.73.40
- accession number: 304389
- catalog number: 73.40
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Kashe
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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