Showing results
Hide images
Grand Pianoforte.
Technical description: English grand pianoforte. Compass 60notes, F₁,G₁ - F₆ [FF,GG - f''']. Bichord stringing throughout. Action is similar to 'Broadwood's Grand Action'. The hammers have rolled leather heads, thicker for the bass register. Two pedals work by means of push rods in the legs, the left operates the una corda, the right the sustaining pedal.
- Date:
1772Serial Number: no 21. - Maker:
Americus Backers - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
Loading... - Place of production:
London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:314.122-4-8 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) sounded by hammers or beaters, with keyboard
- Culture:
- Period:
- Materials:
- Specific materials/techniques:
- Decorative elements:
- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:314.122-4-8 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) sounded by hammers or beaters, with keyboard
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16412