The Schureck Collection

schureck music organ instrument pape fortepiano

Similar to Clinkscale II. p 281, serial no. 2506 partly restored
Description
Nameboard: dark-stained with surrounding st???ging and framed name label in lighter ? word applied directly to nameboard, incribed “PAPE PARIS”
Number: 2568
Compass: 6 1/2 octaves C – F
Keybaord: single unreversed manual
Keyboard materials: ivory naturals, ebony sharps
Pitch: A415Hz
Tuning: equal tempered
Action: downstriking away from player
Hammer coverings: felt
Bridge: divided? (concealed by action)
Strings:

• CC – EE (5 notes) bichord copper overspun steel, tuning pins L, hitchpins R
• DF -F# (14 notes) bichord brass, tuning pins L, hitchpins R
• G – B (5 notes) bichord steel, tuning pins R, hitchpins rear
• C – f4 (54 notes) trichord steel, tuning pins R, hitchpins rear

Soundboard: in base of instrument incribed (R front) “H.PAPE/Facteur de Pianos du ROI/No.19 Rue des Bons Enfans & Rue de Valois NO.10/No.6B Paris No.2568/ANNEE 1834” in base of case
Removable “secondary” soundboard in two parts of which rearmost carries label with instructions for use of mechanism for damping individual strings while tuning
Dampers: cloth overdampers
Frame: timber with brass hitchpin-wrestpin plate
Wrestplank: hitchpin block combined, one each side, carrying pins as above
Brass wrest-plate and hitch-plate attached to R pin block
Hand Stops: 2 brass levers to L inside case for blocking strings as tuning aids
Pedals: L una corda, R damper lift, on ornate inverted lyre
Case: rosewood
Case lid: rosewood as for case, hinged to case lid
Keyboard lid: rosewood as for case, hinged to keyboard lid
Legs: inverted lyre shaped
Music desk: foldable, attached to rear of nameboard, two ornate fretted extractable singers’/instrumentalist’s desk inside R front of case adjacent to keywell
Legs: 2 paired in-curving ornate legs
Dimensions(mm): 1835w x 835d x 250h (ex lid)
Repertoire: Chopin
Provenance:
Concert use: C.Logan : 12.09.10