• Serial No: 621
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Accession No. 1983.75
• Makers: Jonas Chickering, Boston MA
• Type: Square
• Action: English double action with backchecks and adjustment screws in jacks.
• Stops: 1 pedal. Damper pedal in lyre-shaped support; dampers supported on wires rising from levers behind keytails
• Range: FF-c⁴
• Stringing: double strung throughout the compass; FF-AA steel wound strings; longest 149.5 cm, shortest: 10cm, c² 29.8 cm.; square-head pierced tuning pins along spine.
• Hammers: brown leather-covered.
• Framing: Wood; maple-veneered oak pinblock. Spruce sond-board extending over keytails.
• Case: Rectangular mahogany with rosewood striping, brass spiral molding toward bottom, rosewood veneered nameboard with inset brass nameplate, 4 turned and fluted legs with brass.
• Width: 177.5cm; Depth:70.9cm (perpendicular to keyboard); Depth of Case: 28.2cm w/o lid;total height: 88.2cm
• Brass Name Plate: Patent./J. Chickering,/416 Washington St./Maker./Boston.
• Other information: Ivory naturals with flat wood fronts having a single horizontal kerf toward bottom edge, ebony accidentals.
• Original Purchase: January 31, 1829 Major Latham Hedrick, Danville, Vt.
• Information Sources: Laurence Libin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Darcy Kuronen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Cynthia Adams Hoover, The Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC