PIANOFORTE,
SQUARE
(“toy”, “picnic”),
straight-strung
69-stringed
(29 single strings and
twenty 2-string unwound choirs)
49-keyed
(keyboard extent is
F of the great octave — f of the
three-line octave)
Unknown master.
Russia(?), Moscow(?), St. Petersburg(?), the second quarter of the 19th century
703×418×725
Wood, metal, bone, fabric, felt
1933, transferred from the A. A. Bakhrushin State Theater Museum
Stock number: 16516/1634
The key action is Viennese. The dampers are German-type. The case of reduced size is mounted on 4 legs, veneered with rosewood, decorated with bronze plates. The music stand is draped with gray watered silk; nickel-plated polyfoil inserts of late origin are embedded in the corners.
