Steinway & Sons Reproducing Grand Piano
Steinway & Sons Reproducing Grand Piano
- Description (Brief)
- This reproducing grand piano was made by Steinway & Sons in New York in 1930. This model “AR” grand has a Duo-Art reproducing mechanism in a remote concertola cabinet. This cabinet holds multiple player rolls in a location away from the piano, and allows these rolls to be played consecutively and automatically. The piano is serial number 271205(?), and has a compass of AAA-c5, repetition action, felt hammers, 1, 2, or 3 steel strings per note, 3 pedals: una corda, sostenuto and dampers, a one-piece iron frame, cross-strung, and an English oak case, ornately carved with spirally-twisted carved legs, and no curved sides.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1930
- maker
- Steinway & Sons
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- ID Number
- 1983.0587.01
- catalog number
- 1983.0587.01
- accession number
- 1983.0587
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dean E. Burget, Jr., M.D. and Undine Ehrman Burget
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Pianos
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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