Restorer: Stewart Symonds, Ermington, Sydney, N.S.W.
Description
Compass: 5-1/2 octaves FF-c4
Pitch: A 415 Hz
Tuning: equal tempered
Action: English single upstriking
Hammer coverings: leather
Bridge: single
Strings:
- bichord: FF-F (13 notes)
- brass overwound in copper: F#-E (11 notes)
- brass unwound: f-cccc (44 notes) iron
Dampers: brass “peacock tail” underdampers
Keyboard: single unreversed manual
Keyboard materials: ivory naturals, Ebony sharps
Lid: external as for case, internal plain mahogany
Music desks: ????? acts as music desk, with ledge on keybaord lid when both in open position
Wrestpins: inside rear of case
Hitchpins: inside R side of case
Frame: timber, sheraton style
Pedals: nil
Handstops: nil
Case: mahogany with boxwood and ebony stringing
Legs: four tapered squared legs on “French frame” with medallions
Dimensions(mm): 1608w x 565d x 215h (ex lid)
Repertoire: C.P.E. Bach
Condition category: II
Rectification required : none
Provenance: Collection of Rev. Graeme Hardy, Sydney NSW
Concert: 22.09.92, 03.09.95
Comments: One of the earliest Broadwood squares with this compass, the earliest surviving (5 octaves FF-f3) dated 1774; similar to the Collection’s Kirckman 1778 square (see 19. above)
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