Description: identical to Clinkscale : 1.9.15
Restorer: David Hunt, Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England
Nameboard: blonde wood with band of tunbridgeware stringing at top, cloth-lined fretwork panels at each end, central gold-framed oval name label inscribed “New Patent/G.Astor & Co/No 59 CORNHILL/London”
Number: 2654 incised inside case to L of keywell
Compass: 5-1/2 octaves FF-C4 (68 notes)
Keyboard – single unreversed manual
Keybaord materials: ivory naturals, ebony sharps
Pitch: A 415 Hz
Tuning: equal tempered
Action: English double upstriking
Hammer coverings: leather
Bridge: single curved
Strings: brass overwound in iron
- bichord; FF-D# (11 notes)
- bichord brass overwound, brass. E-C4 (57 notes)
Dampers: whalebone spring-loaded cloth overdampers FF-d3
Wrestpins: inside R of case
Hitchpins: inside L rear of case
Handstop: damper lift inside case to L of keywell
Frame: timber
Case: mahogany with tunbridgeware stringing
Case lid: mahogany as for case
Keyboard lid hinged to fallboard: mahogany as for case
Music desk: downfolding attached to inner side of nameboard
Stand: “French frame” with medallions on corners and four tapered legs in solid mahogany
Dimensions(mm): 1633w x 586d x 220h (ex lid)
Repertoire: Haydn, Dussek, London Fortepiano School
Provenance: purchased David Hunt, Willingham Cambr.
Condition category: II
Rectification required: whalebone overdamper springs supplied ready for replacement of worn or broken springs
Concert dates: 01.10.89, 02.11.91, 23.08.92,18.04.95, 15.08.10, 14.09.14
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