grand piano

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 31 Simple chordophones or zithers / 314 Board zithers / 314.1 True board zithers / 314.1-4-8 True board zithers sounded by hammers or beaters, with keyboard

Piano maker: Fryderyk Hintz

Date: ca. 1880-90

Village / Town: Kalisz

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland / present-day Poland

Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, ul. Kościelna 1. Gifted in 2005 by Ewa Kempfi-Krysiak from Łódź; it had been her family's possession for over a hundred years

Inventory number: MHP 68/I

Description: pyramid mahogany veneered. Straight-, single-, double-, triple-strung; composite frame with two stress bars and a capotasto bar for the upper part of stringing. Viennese action with lever dampers

Inscriptions: F. Hintz / w Kaliszu painted in gold on the keyboard cover

Measurements: height 365 (920), width 1380, depth 1950 mm

Materials: wood, metal, ivory

Keyboard compass, stops: A₂-a⁴ – 7 octaves, two pedals – una corda and dampers

Catalog card by: Benjamin Vogel

Bibliography: Vogel, Fortepian polski. Budownictwo fortepianów na ziemiach polskich od poł. XVIII w. do II wojny światowej, Warszawa 1995, s. 225; B. Vogel, Polskie fortepiany XIX-XX w. Kolekcja Muzeum Historii Przemysłu  w Opatówku, Opatówek 1994; K. Rottermund, Budownictwo instrumentów muzycznych na terenie Wielkopolski w XIX i 1. połowie XX wieku, Poznań 2002

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