PIANOFORTE,
SQUARE
straight-strung
118-stringed (six 2-string wound
choirs, fifty-three 2-string unwound
choirs)
59-keyed (keyboard extent is G
of the contra octave — f of the
three-line octave)
Unknown master.
Russia(?), St. Petersburg(?), Moscow(?), the last quarter of the 18th century
1310×485×198
Wood, metal, bone, fabric, felt, leather
1933, transferred from the A. A. Bakhrushin
State Theater Museum
Stock number: 1899/3
The key action is English, hoppered, with an intermediate lever. The damper mechanism is German-type. There are 2 hand levers controlling the dampers: one lever is for the left half of the dampers; the other lever is for the right half. The case is mounted on the underframe, veneered with mahogany.