• Serial No: 533
• Yale University, Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, CT. U.S.A. Accession No. 4980.25
• Year: 1827 ( Chickering built 31 pianos in 1827. These were all squares except for 1 cabinet.)
• Makers: Jonas Chickering, Boston MA
• Action: English double action
• Stops: 2 pedal The left raises the dampers, the right raises a padded batten that muffles the after-lenghts of the strings.
• Range: FF-f⁴
• Stringing: double strung throughout the compass; FF-G# are open wound with metal ribbon.
• Framing: Wood.
• Case: The case is veneered with rosewood and ornamented with brass band inlay..
• Width: 176.9cm; Depth:73.6cm (perpendicular to keyboard); Depth of Case: 28.5cm
• Brass plaque inscription: J. CHICKERING,/BOSTON
• Other information: The wrestplank is located at the left rear of the case, the hitchpin rail at the right side. The grain of the soundboard runs obliquely from the left front of the case to the right rear. The bridge is flat-topped and double-pinned. The hammers are covered with four layers of leather. The instrument is supported by four massive legs with heavy carved reeding.
• Original Purchaser:
• Information Sources: Nicholas Renouf, Associate Curator Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, CT. U.S.A., musinst@yale.edu; Darcy Kuronen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.;Cynthia Adams Hoover, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.