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: Krall & Seidler

Date: ca. 1890

Village / Town: Warsaw

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland (present-day Poland)

Owner: Andrzej Szwalbe Collection, Ostromecko Palace near Bydgoszcz. Presented by the Polish society to composer Zygmunt Noskowski at the 25th anniversary of his work as a composer in 1891. 1979, bought from composer’s daughter-in-law Eugenia Noskowska, Poznań

Inventory number: PN-VI-60-96

Description: black polished. Cross-, single-, double-, triple-strung, composite frame with three stress bars crosswisely connected. Full frame casted together with hitch pin block’s armour. English repetition action with overdampers

Inscriptions: on the keyboard cover inlaid in brass: KRALL & SEIDLER; on the soundboard: Nr 5281; on the case cover engraved, brass, rectangular tablet: ZYGMUNTOWI NOSKOWSKIEMU / w 25-lecie Jego działalności kompozytorskiej / 1865-1890 / RODACY; on the keyboard side blocks inked: 4 II 1962 / T. Klaus; stamp: TADEUSZ KLAUS STROICIEL FORTEPIANÓW I PIANIN / Liceum Muzycznego i Państwowej Szkoły Muzycznej w Poznaniu, ul. Głogowska 93/21; a similar inscription on the key lever and: 29/2.99; illegible signature and: 11/4.1901.

Measurements: height 390 (970), width 1460, depth 1900 mm

Materials: wood, metal, ivory

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

Catalog card by: Benjamin Vogel

Bibliography: B. Vogel, Fortepian polski. Budownictwo fortepianów na ziemiach polskich od poł. XVIII w. do II wojny światowej, (Warszawa, 1995), pp. 238-40; B. Vogel, Kolekcja zabytkowych fortepianów Filharmonii Pomorskiej, (Bydgoszcz, ¹1980, ²1987), p. 50

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