Haberacker Square Piano
- Description (Brief)
- This square piano was made by John Haberacker in Reading, Pennsylvania around 1818-1822. Little is known of this piano maker except that he was part of an active group of Reading builders giving competition to Philadelphia, which in the late 1820s was still the leading piano manufacturing city in the nation. This piano has a compass of FF-f3, a double action without escapement, leather hammers, double-strings throughout with tuning pins on the right, 1 pedal: dampers (attached to a center post), and a wood frame. The case veneer is crotch-figured mahogany..
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1818-1822
- maker
- Haberacker, John
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Reading
- ID Number
- MI.299834
- catalog number
- 299834
- accession number
- 61285
- Credit Line
- Gift of Hugo Worch
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- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Pianos
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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