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Square Piano

Date:: 1822–27
Geography:: New York, New York, United States
Medium:: Various materials
Dimensions:: L. of case (perpendicular to keyboard, excluding drawer knobs): 63 cm (24-7/8 in.); W.( parallel to keyboard): 172.7 (68 in.); D. of case (without lid): 34 cm (13-3/8 in.); Total H.: 87.3 cm (34-3/8 in.); String L.: longest-146.5 cm (57-3/4 in.), shortest-7.1 cm (57-3/4 in.), c2: 28.8 cm (11-3/8/in.); 3-octave span: 48.3 cm (19 in.)
Classification:: Chordophone-Zither
Credit Line:: Gift of Miss Dorothy Lawton, 1945
Accession Number:: 45.126

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: 1] (on nameboard): New Patent,/A. & W.l Geib./23, Maiden Lane/New York 2] (stamped on case at left of keyboard): 6152 3] (stamped on either end of nameboard and hitchpin rail): 293 4] (written in pencil on top key) Repaired by A. J. Biodan, Titusville Pa July 1917
References

Clinkscale Martha Novak. Makers of the Piano, 1700-1820. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK, 1993, pg. 120.

A Checklist of American Musical Instruments. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pg. 11.

Libin Laurence. American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1985, pg. 172, fig. 208, ill.
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Who
Adam William Geib (1)
What
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