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Serial Number 4620
From the Broadwood
Collection, this early drawing room grand in Victorian figured rosewood with ornamented octagonal legs and lyre-shaped lyre
was completed at Broadwood's workshops, Horseferry Road, Westminster on 6th
September 1862 and sold in April 1863 to Mr Marsh, a Broadwood agent in
Coney Street, York.
The 6¾ octave keyboard has
ivory naturals with boxwood fronts and ebony accidentals. This instrument
has typical Broadwood duck feet pedals and is straight strung.
This is a first-class example
of a Broadwood piano from this period and is in excellent condition. The
celebrated Victorian composer, principal of the Royal Academy of Music and
founder of the Bach Society, Sir William Sterndale Bennett, friend of
Mendelssohn and Schumann, owned an identical piano.
Tuned to concert pitch.
Length 7ft. 6ins, Width
50ins. |
