Nameboard: blank : name label on inner surface of combined keyboard lid-fallboard (see below): ??? inscribed “Royal Letters Patent / Granted / 1811 1820 1826 1829 1842 1856 / Robert Wornum & Sons MUSIC HALL Slaze Street Bedford Square LONDON”in gold on black background
Description: with 5169 on top of case and (alone) incised on top internal edge of keyboad lid to R of damper rail and hammer rail
Number: 11029
Printed paper label headed DIRECTIONS for Regulating the PICCOLO PIANO-FORTE ACTION: applied to hammer rail at R adjacent to incised No. 11029
Compass; 6 2/3 octaves (82 notes)
Keyboard materials: ivory covered naturals, ebony sharps
Pitch: approx. 4th below A440Hz
Tuning: equal tempered
Action: Wornum patent upright tape check fall back-striking action
Hammer coverings: leather
Bridge: composite (continuous bass and treble sections divided at c#-d)
Strings: parallel diagonal (oblique) straight stringing over :
- bridge bass : CC- FF# (7 notes unichord) copper winding over iron to hitchplank A
- GG – c# (19 notes bichord) copper winding over iron to hitchplank A
- bridge treble: c# – c2 (23 notes trichord) unwound iron to hitchplank A
- c#2- a4 (33 notes trichord) unwound iron to hitchplank B
Dampers: felt overdampers CC-a2
Frame: timber
Pedals: two large timber: L unicorda, R damper lift
Case: rosewood, with cloth-backed (un????) fretwork front above keyboard
Combined keyboard lid and fallboard : cylinidrical as for case
Case lid: as for case
Music desk : folded within keyboard lid-fall board
Legs: paired tampered octaginal timber legs with circular capitals and bases. the latter with casters
Dimensions(mm): 1333w x 1200h (ex lid) x 309d (ex keyboard) or 640d (at keyboard)
Repertoire: early Romantic and Victorian ballads
Provenance : Doherty & Co. Furniture Brokers, Sydney
Condition Category : III
Rectification required : ivories missing (c, c3) , scuffing on cane veneer: no parts missing
Concert date : none
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