• Serial No: 269
• Type: Square
• Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Mich; Catalog No. 30.1953.5
• This is probably the first piano made by Stewert and Chickering in 1823. It unfortunately was destroyed by fire in 1970 at the Museum. It was a square piano.
• Makers: Jonas Chickering, James Stewart, Boston MA
• Action: standard English double action.
• Stops: 1 pedal: damper
• Range: FF-c⁴ (5 and 1/2 Octaves) 68 Keys
• Stringing: FF to c¹ strung from right to left, hitch pins located left side of case
• ...............c¹#-c⁴ strung from back to right side, tuning pins located back of case
• Framing: Wood.
• Case: Mahogany case in Sheraton period style with Federal accents, rosewood fallboard, brass banded inlay, hand-carved pedal rack, two silver medallions on fallboard, maple frame, pine soundboard.
• Height: 34.50 inches; Width: 69.00 inches; Depth: 28.50 inches
• Nameboard Inscription: Patent, Stewart and Chickering, makers, Tremont Street, Boston
• Original Purchase: June 24,1823; Jos. A. Bingham Esq.
• Information Source: Jeanine Head Miller,Henry Ford Museum; Darcy Kuronen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.; Cynthia Adams Hoover, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC.