• Serial No.: 913
  • Year: 1831 Square Piano. This piano was destroyed by fire at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Mich. in 1970. Catalog No.: 29.1514.1
  • Maker: Jonas Chickering; Boston, MA
  • Action: standard English double action
  • Stops: 2 pedals: damper and piano
  • Range: FF-f4 73 Keys (six octaves)
  • Stringing: Wrest plank with tuning pins located on back of case, interior, hitchpins secured in iron hitch pin block, right side of .instrument.
  • Framing:
  • Case: Rosewood case in Sheraton period style with Federal accents, brass banded inlay.
  • Height: 36.5 inches; Length: 72.75 inches; Depth: 30.5inches
  • Fallboard Stencil: J. Chickering, Boston
  • Information Source: Jeanine Head Miller,Henry Ford Museum & Darcy Kuronen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.